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Scalaria elegans

Gastropoda - Epitoniidae

Taxonomy

Turbo elegans was named by Münster (1841). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is St. Cassian (Munster coll), which is in a Julian carbonate limestone in the Cassian Formation of Italy.

It was recombined as Scalaria elegans by Kittl (1892).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

S. anconai, S. brancoi, S. browni, S. calamistrata, S. clementina, S. compacta, S. cruciana, S. desertorum, S. gurgitis, S. jasmundi, S. klipsteini, S. lyrata, S. magna, S. marylandica, S. meyeri, S. minuta, S. neocomiensis, S. pacifica, S. pulchra, S. quinquefasciata, S. rugulosa, S. studeri, S. torulosa, S. virginiana

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1841	Turbo elegans Münster p. 116 figs. Pl 12, fig 39
1869	Turbo elegans Laube p. 22 figs. Pl 31, fig 12
1892	Scalaria elegans Kittl p. 48 figs. Pl 5, figs 28,29

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca

Rank	Name	Author
class	Gastropoda
subclass	Caenogastropoda	(Cox 1959)
superfamily	Epitonioidea	(Berry 1910)
family	Epitoniidae	Berry 1910
genus	Scalaria	Lamarck 1801
species	elegans	()

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.

†Scalaria elegans Münster 1841

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
shell height	2	4.38	1.20	16.0	8.60	10.5

Composition:

aragonitef

Composition 2:

low Mg calcitef

Locomotion:

slow-movingf

Life habit:

low-level epifaunalf

Diet:

carnivoref

Vision:

limitedc

Created:

2007-02-05 23:13:43

Modified:

2011-09-22 17:20:39

Source: f = family, c = class

References: Beu et al. 1990, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Julian to the top of the Late/Upper Pliensbachian or 237.00000 to 184.20000 Ma

Collections (10 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Julian	237.0 - 233.6	Italy	Eucycloscala elegans (69659 137435) Scalaria elegans (144631 144633) Turbo elegans (137429)
Carnian	237.0 - 227.3	Italy	Eucycloscala elegans (164191)
Late/Upper Pliensbachian	192.9 - 184.2	Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia)	Eucycloscala elegans (225394 225396)
Spinatum	192.9 - 184.2	Germany	Eucycloscala elegans (159446)
Spinatum	192.9 - 184.2	Germany (Bavaria)	Eucycloscala elegans (25502)