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Tritonalia volutaeformis
Taxonomy
Hemifusus volutaeformis was named by Dickerson (1915). Its type specimen is UCMP 11056, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UCMP 452, Grapevine Canyon, which is in an Eocene marginal marine sandstone/shale in the Tejon Formation of California.
It was recombined as Tritonalia volutaeformis by Anderson and Hanna (1925).
It was recombined as Tritonalia volutaeformis by Anderson and Hanna (1925).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Murex aciculata, Murex corallina, Murex decussata, Murex decussatus, Murex edwardsi, Murex miscowicki, Murex pallaryi, Murex purpruoides, Purpura austriaca, Purpura confluens, Purpura delbosiana, Purpura erinacea, Purpura granulifera, Purpura kojumdgievae, Purpura volzi, T. cala, T. cala, T. cellulosa, T. lurida, T. lurida, T. lurida, T. parva, T. purpuroides, T. scabrosa, T. urgonense
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1915 | Hemifusus volutaeformis Dickerson p. 67 figs. Plate 8, figures 4a, 4b |
| 1925 | Tritonalia volutaeformis Anderson and Hanna p. 52 |
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†Tritonalia volutaeformis Dickerson 1915
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||