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Ampullina stantoni

Gastropoda - Ampullinidae

Taxonomy

Ampullina stantoni was named by Murphy and Rodda (1960). Its type specimen is UCLA 28631 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UCLA loc. 3763, which is in an Albian/Cenomanian marine sandstone in the Budden Canyon Formation of California.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

A. abeihensis, A. alabamiensis, A. arntzenii, A. australis, A. barytata, A. bulbiformis, A. chenayensis, A. chira, A. clementina, A. coxi, A. crassitina, A. cylindrica, A. dido, A. dumblei, A. dupinii, A. dupinii, A. ervyna, A. favorina, A. flintensis, A. gasullae, A. gaultina, A. georgeana, A. haemisphaerica, A. hybrida, A. krumbecki, A. laevigata, A. merciniensis, A. mississippiensis, A. mulitta, A. multistriata, A. oregonensis, A. paludinaris, A. parisiensis, A. parisiensis, A. patula, A. ponderosa, A. potens, A. quaasi, A. quitrinensis, A. royeri, A. sanctaecrucis, A. semitalis, A. similis, A. solida, A. streptostoma, A. subhybridica, A. supracretacea, A. suprajurensis, A. suturata, A. umbilica, A. vautrini, A. veriotina, A. vespa, A. vulcani, A. abeihensis, A. ervyna, A. quaasi, A. berauensis, A. paludinaris, A. sanctaecrucis, A. tyrolensis, A. bulbiformis, A. hantkeni

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1960	Ampullina stantoni Murphy and Rodda p. 843 figs. Pl. 101, figs. 9,10,11

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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)
—	Architaenioglossa	(Haller 1890)
superfamily	Ampullinoidea	Cossmann 1918
family	Ampullinidae	Cossmann 1918
genus	Ampullina	Férussac 1822
species	stantoni

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.

†Ampullina stantoni Murphy and Rodda 1960

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

aragonitec

Locomotion:

actively mobilesuperf

Life habit:

epifaunalsuperf

Diet:

grazersuperf

Vision:

limitedc

Created:

2009-09-15 09:36:57

Modified:

2009-09-15 11:36:57

Source: superf = superfamily, c = class

References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Albian to the top of the Early/Lower Cenomanian or 106.30000 to 93.90000 Ma

Collections (8 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Albian	106.3 - 100.5	USA (California)	Ampullina stantoni (1784)
Late/Upper Albian - Early/Lower Cenomanian	106.3 - 93.9	USA (California)	Ampullina stantoni (1802 type locality: 1804)
Early/Lower Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	USA (California)	Ampullina stantoni (1786 1787 1789 1798 1805)