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Clavilithes burtti
Taxonomy
Clavilithes burtti was named by Hanna and Israelsky (1925). Its type specimen is CAS 1720, 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
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1925 | Clavilithes burtti Hanna and Israelsky figs. pl. 7, fig. 11 |
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†Clavilithes burtti Hanna and Israelsky 1925
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| G. D. Hanna and M. C. Israelsky 1925 | Shell broadly fusiform, heavy, early whorls strongly lirate, later ones weakly lirate; growth lines distinct; spire short; whorls sharply keeled at periphery; shoulder flat, inclined out-
ward ; suture deeply impressed ; aperture ovate, opening into an open, narrow anterior canal; inner lip strongly calloused; columella nearly straight, smooth. |
Measurements
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Early/Lower Eocene or 56.00000 to 48.07000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Eocene | Peru | Clavilithes burtti (type locality: 93759) |