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Echinophoria fax

Gastropoda - Cassidae

Taxonomy

Galeodea fax was named by Tegland (1931). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UCMP loc. A-730, Porter locality, which is in an Oligocene marine shale in the Porter Formation of Washington.

It was recombined as Liracassis fax by Moore (1963); it was recombined as Echinophoria fax by Durham (1942), Durham (1944), Hendy (2020).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

E. belgica, E. bicoronata, E. rondeleti, E. tritiberculata, Phalium cingulae, Phalium rondeleti, Phalium rondeleti, Semicassis apenes, Semicassis bicoronata, Semicassis bicoronata, Semicassis rondeleti, Semicassis tostoma

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1931	Galeodea fax Tegland
1938	Galeodea fax Effinger p. 382
1942	Echinophoria fax Durham p. 185
1944	Echinophoria fax Durham p. 166
1963	Liracassis fax Moore p. 30
2020	Echinophoria fax Hendy

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Gastropoda
subclass	Caenogastropoda	(Cox 1959)

Rank	Name	Author
—	Sorbeoconcha	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—	Hypsogastropoda	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorder	Latrogastropoda	Riedel 2000
superfamily	Tonnoidea	(Suter 1913)
family	Cassidae	Latreille 1825
subfamily	Phaliinae	Beu 1981
genus	Echinophoria	Sacco 1890
species	fax	(Tegland 1931)

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.

†Echinophoria fax Tegland 1931

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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 07:59:15

Modified:

2009-09-10 09:59:15

Source: f = family, c = class

References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Middle Eocene to the top of the Early/Lower Oligocene or 48.07000 to 27.30000 Ma

Collections (3 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Middle Eocene	48.07 - 37.71	USA (Washington)	Galeodea fax (40735)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	USA (Washington)	Galeodea fax (40733)
Early/Lower Oligocene	33.9 - 27.3	USA (Washington)	Galeodea fax (40734)