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Drillia mercedensis

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Drilliidae

Taxonomy

Drillia mercedensis was named by Martin (1914). It is a 3D body fossil.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

D. aquaensis, D. brevicauda, D. centrodes, D. coryphodes, D. crandalli, D. dipta, D. eurysoma, D. haraldi, D. henkeni, D. lapenotieri, D. microneta, D. pirabica, D. pleutonica, D. popefusiformis, D. prion, D. pycnoklosta, D. trimitrodita, D. trypanion, D. waltoniana, D. zosta, D. auriculifera

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1914	Drillia mercedensis Martin p. 194 figs. Plate 22, figures 2a, 2b, and 2c

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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
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Conoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Drilliidae	(Olsson 1964)
genus	Drillia	Gray 1838
species	mercedensis

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.

†Drillia mercedensis Martin 1914

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

aragonitec

Locomotion:

actively mobilesuperf

Life habit:

epifaunalsuperf

Diet:

carnivoresuperf

Vision:

limitedc

Created:

2009-09-10 08:08:14

Modified:

2009-09-10 10:08:14

Source: superf = superfamily, c = class

References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Pliocene to the top of the Piacenzian or 5.33300 to 2.58800 Ma

Collections (5 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Pliocene	5.333 - 3.6	USA (California)	Drillia mercedensis (220196 220198)
Pliocene	5.333 - 2.588	USA (California)	Drillia mercedensis (216864 220029)
Piacenzian	3.6 - 2.588	USA (California)	Turris mercedensis (186031)