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Thais (Thaisella) edmondi

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae

Taxonomy
Purpura edmondi was named by Arnold (1907). Its type specimen is USNM 164983, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Head of Topanga Canyon (Arnold 1907), which is in a Miocene coastal siliciclastic in the Topanga Canyon Formation of California.

It was recombined as Tritonalia edmondi by Hoots (1931); it was recombined as Thais (Thaisella) edmondi by Addicott (1970).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Purpura nodosa

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1907Purpura edmondi Arnold p. 530 figs. Plate XL, figs. 3 and 3a
1931Tritonalia edmondi Hoots p. 100
1970Thais (Thaisella) edmondi Addicott p. 85 figs. Plate 9, figures 14, 15

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
—Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
RankNameAuthor
—Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
orderNeogastropodaThiele 1929
superfamilyMuricoideade Costa 1776
familyMuricidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyRapaninaeGray 1853
genusThaisClench 1947
subgenusThaisella
speciesedmondi()

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
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 08:22:24
Modified: 2009-09-10 10:22:24
Source: f = family, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Miocene to the top of the Langhian or 23.04000 to 13.82000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Miocene23.04 - 15.98USA (California) Thais edmondi (196138)
Langhian15.98 - 13.82USA (California) Tritonalia edmondi (237500 237577)
Middle Miocene15.98 - 11.63USA (California) Purpura edmondi (237493)