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Clavilithes atahuallpai

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae

Taxonomy

Clavilithes atahuallpai was named by Hanna and Israelsky (1925). Its type specimen is CAS 1718, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is CAS Loc. 850, Quebrada Mancora [Negritos Fm], which is in an Eocene marine horizon in the Negritos Formation of Peru.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

C. acus, C. angulatus, C. contabulatus, C. hantoniensis, C. hexacolpus, C. kennedyanus, C. pachyleurus, C. parvetorbis, C. penrosei, C. solanderi

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1925	Clavilithes atahuallpai Hanna and Israelsky figs. pl. 7, figs. 8, 9

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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	Buccinoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Fasciolariidae	Gray 1853
subfamily	Fusininae	Swainson 1840
genus	Clavilithes	Swainson 1840
species	atahuallpai

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.

†Clavilithes atahuallpai Hanna and Israelsky 1925

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Diagnosis

Reference	Diagnosis
G. D. Hanna and M. C. Israelsky 1925	Shell fusoid, with body whorl longer than turreted spire; ornamented by fine spiral lines, which become rather heavy on base of body whorl; spire with apical angle of 70Â° and strongly noded, the body whorl slightly noded or not at all; shoulder tabulate for about 1% whorls from aperture; aperture suboval, inclined, notched at shoulder ; anterior canal open, narrow, curved, about same length as body whorl ; columella vertical, flexuous ; inner lip slightly calloused ; umbilicus incipient; measurements of type, No. 1718.

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

aragonitec

Locomotion:

actively mobilef

Life habit:

epifaunalf

Diet:

carnivoref

Vision:

limitedc

Created:

2009-09-10 08:21:16

Modified:

2009-09-10 10:21:16

Source: f = family, c = class

References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Early/Lower Miocene or 23.03000 to 15.97000 Ma

Collections: one only

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Miocene	23.03 - 15.97	Peru	Clavilithes atahuallpai (93749)