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Drillia protointerrupta

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae

Taxonomy

Drillia protointerrupta was named by Noetling (1901) [DISTRIBUTION: Oligocene-Early Miocene; Myanmar, India.]. It is not a trace fossil.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

D. aquaensis, D. brevicauda, D. centrodes, D. coryphodes, D. crandalli, D. dipta, D. eurysoma, D. haraldi, D. henkeni, D. lapenotieri, D. microneta, D. pirabica, D. pleutonica, D. popefusiformis, D. prion, D. pycnoklosta, D. trimitrodita, D. trypanion, D. waltoniana, D. zosta, D. auriculifera

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1901	Drillia protointerrupta Noetling p. 354 figs. pl. 23, fig. 8
1921	Drillia protointerrupta Vredenburg p. 283
1939	Drillia protointerrupta Mukerjee p. 79

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Gastropoda
subclass	Caenogastropoda	(Cox 1959)

Rank	Name	Author
—	Sorbeoconcha	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—	Hypsogastropoda	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorder	Latrogastropoda	Riedel 2000
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Conoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Drilliidae	(Olsson 1964)
genus	Drillia	Gray 1838
species	protointerrupta	Noetling 1901

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.

†Drillia protointerrupta Noetling 1901

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

aragonitec

Locomotion:

actively mobilesuperf

Life habit:

epifaunalsuperf

Diet:

carnivoresuperf

Vision:

limitedc

Created:

2009-09-10 08:08:14

Modified:

2009-09-10 10:08:14

Source: superf = superfamily, c = class

References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Rupelian to the top of the Early/Lower Miocene or 33.90000 to 15.97000 Ma

Collections (2 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Rupelian	33.9 - 28.1	Myanmar	Drillia protointerrupta (76590)
Early/Lower Miocene	23.03 - 15.97	India	Drillia protointerrupta (76574)