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Cryptospira

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae

Taxonomy

Cryptospira was named as a genus. It is extant.

It was reranked as Marginella (Cryptospira) by Oostingh (1935) and Mukerjee (1939).

It was assigned to Marginella by Oostingh (1935) and Mukerjee (1939); to Neogastropoda by Sepkoski (2002); and to Marginellidae by Palmer and Brann (1966), Adegoke (1977) and Darragh (2017).

Species

C. (Euryentome), C. hordeastra, Marginella (Cryptospira) birmanica, Marginella (Cryptospira) dactylus, Marginella (Cryptospira) ventricosa

Species lacking formal opinion data

Marginella elegans, Marginella elegans, Marginella loebbeckeana

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1935	Marginella (Cryptospira) Oostingh p. 96
1939	Marginella (Cryptospira) Mukerjee p. 67
1966	Cryptospira Palmer and Brann p. 617
1977	Cryptospira Adegoke p. 193
2002	Cryptospira Sepkoski
2017	Cryptospira Darragh p. 81

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Gastropoda

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Caenogastropoda	(Cox 1959)
—	Sorbeoconcha	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—	Hypsogastropoda	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorder	Latrogastropoda	Riedel 2000
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Muricoidea	de Costa 1776
family	Marginellidae	Fleming 1828
genus	Cryptospira

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Cryptospira

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Subg. †Cryptospira (Euryentome)

†Cryptospira hordeastra Darragh 2017

†Marginella (Cryptospira) birmanica Vredenburg 1923

Marginella (Cryptospira) dactylus Lamarck 1822

Marginella (Cryptospira) ventricosa Fischer de Waldheim 1807

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

aragonitec

Locomotion:

actively mobilef

Life habit:

epifaunalf

Diet:

carnivoref

Vision:

limitedc

Created:

2009-09-10 08:20:36

Modified:

2009-09-10 10:20:36

Source: f = family, c = class

References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Selandian to the top of the Early/Lower Pliocene or 61.60000 to 3.60000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 59.2 Ma

Collections (36 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Selandian	61.6 - 59.2	Nigeria	C. sp. (7791)
Ypresian	56.0 - 47.8	Saudi Arabia (Ash Sharqiyah)	C. sp. (42459)
Bartonian	41.3 - 38.0	France (Oise)	C. pusilla, C. vittata (3494)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Australia (Western Australia)	C. hordeastra (205816)
Late/Upper Eocene	37.2 - 33.9	United Kingdom (England)	C. simplex (42649)
Early/Lower Miocene	23.03 - 15.97	India	Marginella birmanica (76573 76574)
Middle Miocene	15.97 - 11.608	Indonesia	Marginella nanggulanensis (70086) Marginella pamotanensis, Marginella ventricosa (70085)
Late/Upper Miocene	11.608 - 5.333	Indonesia (Kalimantan)	C. sp. (173685)
Late/Upper Miocene	11.608 - 5.333	Indonesia (Borneo)	Marginella elegans (42283 42311)
Late/Upper Miocene	11.608 - 5.333	Indonesia	Marginella birmanica (70083) Marginella ventricosa (70077 70100)
Early/Lower Pliocene	5.333 - 3.6	Indonesia (Java)	Marginella ventricosa (45344)
Pliocene	5.333 - 2.588	Indonesia	Marginella ventricosa (84518 84520 84533 84539 84544) Marginella ventricosa, Marginella dactylus (84519 84521 84523 84524)
Pliocene - Pleistocene	5.333 - 0.0117	Malaysia	C. tricincta (72094 72095 72097 72100 72103 72104) C. tricincta, C. pilzi (72096 72098 72099 72102) C. tricinta (72092)