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Crassispira conica

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Pseudomelatomidae

Taxonomy

Crassispira conica was named by Jung (1965). It is a 3D body fossil.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

C. adelomorpha, C. alesidota, C. boadicea, C. borealis, C. brocchii, C. calligona, C. calurii, C. daguini, C. eupatoria, C. ferenuda, C. geslini, C. hataii, C. karikalensis, C. laurentii, C. loxa, C. lyopleura, C. macneili, C. meunieri, C. molengraaffi, C. pseudoprincipalis, C. pseudosigma, C. pustulata, C. ruggierii, C. seiuncta, C. sejungenda, C. sella, C. semisulcata, C. sinensis, C. smilia, C. tapocana, C. terebra, C. tityra, C. adana, C. consors, C. faceta, C. factea, C. lyopleura, C. consors, C. consors, C. tepocana, C. acutangularis, C. inflexa, C. margaritula, C. nana, C. subturrella, C. sulcata, C. turrella, Drillia cotteri

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1965	Crassispira conica Jung p. 564 figs. pl. 76, figs. 8-11
1972	Crassispira conica Thomas pp. 120-121

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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	Pseudomelatomidae	(McLearn 1971)
genus	Crassispira	Swainson 1840
species	conica	Jung 1965

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.

†Crassispira conica Jung 1965

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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 Burdigalian to the top of the Langhian or 20.45000 to 13.82000 Ma

Collections (11 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian	20.45 - 15.98	Venezuela (Falcon)	Crassispira conica (60144)
Burdigalian	20.45 - 15.98	Colombia (La Guajira)	Crassispira conica (136881 161891)
Burdigalian - Langhian	20.45 - 13.82	Colombia	Crassispira conica (106366)
Langhian	15.98 - 13.82	Colombia (La Guajira)	Crassispira conica (136878 136879 136880 136884 136885 136907 136909)