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Afrozoila caputavisensis

Gastropoda - Cypraeidae

Taxonomy
Zoila caputavisensis was named by Beets (1986). Its type specimen is RGM 42 262, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Vogelkop, R. 26, Klasaman Formation, New Guinea, which is in a Miocene/Pliocene marginal marine sandstone/conglomerate in the Klasaman Formation of Indonesia.

It was recombined as Afrozoila caputavisensis by Fehse (2016).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1986Zoila caputavisensis Beets pp. 107 - 108 figs. PI. 8, figs. 1-9
2016Afrozoila caputavisensis Fehse

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
RankNameAuthor
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
superfamilyCypraeoidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyCypraeidaeRafinesque 1815
genusAfrozoila
speciescaputavisensis()

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.

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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
C. Beets 1986The shell is subpyriform, with humped smooth dorsum, maximum height adapically to the centre; the base flattened, the lateral margins with a distinct tendency to angulation adapically to the hump, the sides covered by callous glaze except for an irregularly shaped area on the hump; the spire does not project. Adapical extremity projecting, lammelliform, recurved and distinctly edged and elevated around the deeply notched outlet. Basal extremity projecting narrowly, its edge is slightly upturned, notch shallow. Aperture narrow, curved. Labial and columellar teeth not extended on to the base: labial teeth short and strong, numbering 15 in the holotype, and 16 in the paratype, lying at regular intervals. Holotype with 12 columellar teeth, a weak thirteenth between the ninth and tenth tooth from the adapical end of the row, and an obsolete fourteenth at the abapical end. Paratype with 15 columellar teeth and abapically a very obsolete sixteenth. Fossula well developed, narrow.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitec
Locomotion: actively mobilef
Life habit: epifaunalf
Diet: omnivoref
Diet 2: grazerf
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2009-09-10 07:50:11
Modified: 2009-09-10 09:50:11
Source: f = family, c = class
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Miocene to the top of the Pliocene or 11.63000 to 2.58000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Miocene - Pliocene11.63 - 2.58Indonesia (New Guinea) Zoila caputavisensis (type locality: 42391)