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Denayella bella

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae

Taxonomy
Trepospira (Angyomphalus) bella was named by Tyler (1965). Its type specimen is YPM 16479, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is river bed immediately downstream from the Four Mile Dam on Thunder Bay River, which is in a Givetian carbonate limestone in the Four Mile Dam Formation of Michigan.

It was recombined as Denayella bella by Wagner (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1965Trepospira (Angyomphalus) bella Tyler p. 342 figs. pl. 47 f. 22-24
1971Trepospira (Angyomphalus) bella Rollins et al. p. 157
2023Denayella bella Wagner p. S1261

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
RankNameAuthor
subclassOrthogastropoda
orderMurchisoniina
superfamilyEotomarioidea
familyEotomariidaeWenz 1938
subfamilyLiospirinae
genusDenayella
speciesbella()

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.

Denayella bella Tyler 1965
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
J. H. Tyler 1965Shell small, holotype 3.6 mm. high and 6.25 mm. wide, lenticular, with de-pressed, gently convex upper surface; sutures shallow; base hemiomphalus; characteristic funicle absent; growth lines indiscernible; selenizone narrow, concave, with weak border threads and without lunulae, with lower edge on periphery; sinus and slit unknown; ornament consisting of clearly defined subsutural nodes elongate radially, slightly variable in spacing, and slightly opisthocline; circumumbilical nodes elongate radially, fewer, longer, and less strongly pronounced than subsutural nodes; other ornamentation absent from upper whorl surface.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragoniteo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: epifaunalo
Diet: detritivoreo
Vision: limitedo
Created: 2009-09-21 10:40:01
Modified: 2024-02-04 19:53:32
Source: o = order
Reference: Bambach et al. 2007

Age range: Givetian or 387.70000 to 382.70000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Givetian387.7 - 382.7USA (Michigan) Trepospira bella (type locality: 85061)