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Procerithium deserti

Gastropoda - Procerithiidae

Taxonomy
Procerithium deserti was named by Douvillé (1916). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Gebel Hameir (Small Fossils), which is in a Bathonian marine horizon in Egypt.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. fontinense, P. mandawaense, P. oderinensis, P. ogerieni, P. rugosum, P. nysti

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1916Procerithium deserti Douvillé p. 44 figs. Pl. 5, Fig. 9

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
—Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—Cerithiimorpha(Golikov and Starobogatov 1975)
familyProcerithiidaeCossmann 1905
genusProcerithiumCossmann 1902
speciesdeserti

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.

†Procerithium deserti Douvillé 1916
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitec
Locomotion: actively mobilesubo
Life habit: epifaunalsubo
Diet: grazersubo
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2009-09-10 07:18:02
Modified: 2009-09-10 09:18:02
Source: subo = suborder, c = class
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Bathonian to the top of the Middle Callovian or 168.20000 to 161.50000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Bathonian168.2 - 165.3Egypt Procerithium deserti (type locality: 171228)
Middle Callovian165.3 - 161.5Israel Procerithium deserti (99129 99130 99131)