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Sassia warreni

Gastropoda - Ranellidae

Taxonomy

Sassia warreni was named by Beu (2010). Its type specimen is NMB H 17964, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Caronia flandrica, Charonia antiqua, Charonia benoisti, Charonia bicincta, Charonia bjerringi, Charonia briarti, Charonia cnneata, Charonia colubrina, Charonia curtula, Charonia dumortieri, Charonia flandrica, Charonia flandrica, Charonia flandriea, Charonia formosa, Charonia mariae, Charonia multigrana, Charonia multigranifera, Charonia nodularia, Charonia planicostata, Charonia planisulcata, Charonia reticulosa, Charonia scabriuscula, Charonia simplicostata, Charonia striatula, Charonia tarbelliana, Charonia tritonea, Charonia tuberculosa, Charonia vincenti, Charonia viperina, Eutritonium permutabile, S. abbotti, S. antiqua, S. appeninica, S. arguta, S. bicegoi, S. bileneata, S. bjerringi, S. borsoni, S. conradiana, S. delafossei, S. expansa, S. faxense, S. flandrica, S. foveolata, S. granosa, S. inornatum, S. laevigata, S. monilifera, S. oligostira, S. rutoti, S. sussexiensis, S. tarbelliana, S. tortirostris, S. tuberculifera, S. abbreviata, S. fennemai, S. marwicki, S. pahaoaensis, S. subspinosum

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
2010	Sassia warreni Beu p. 200 figs. pl. 50, figs. 2, 5, 8, 11-13

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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
superfamily	Tonnoidea	(Suter 1913)
family	Ranellidae	Gray 1854
subfamily	Cymatiinae	Iredale 1913
genus	Sassia	(Bellardi 1872)
species	warreni

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.

†Sassia warreni Beu 2010

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

aragonitec

Locomotion:

actively mobilef

Life habit:

epifaunalf

Diet:

carnivoref

Vision:

limitedc

Created:

2009-09-10 07:59:47

Modified:

2009-09-10 09:59:47

Source: f = family, c = class

References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Early/Lower Pliocene or 5.33300 to 3.60000 Ma

Collections (2 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Pliocene	5.333 - 3.6	Dominican Republic	Sassia warreni (84977)
Zanclean	5.333 - 3.6	Dominican Republic	Sassia warreni (80136)