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Bradyospira talboti

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae

Taxonomy
Ptychomphalina talboti was named by Dickins (1963). Its type specimen is CPC 4007, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is BMR PB14, Fossil Ridge, Irwin River Area, which is in a Sakmarian coastal siliciclastic in the Fossil Cliff Formation of Australia.

It was recombined as Mourlonia talboti by Batten (1972), Swart (1998); it was recombined as Bradyospira talboti by Wagner (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1963Ptychomphalina talboti Dickins p. 125 figs. Pl 24, figs 12-19
1972Mourlonia talboti Batten p. 15 fig. 9
1998Mourlonia talboti Swart p. 166 figs. 1D,F-G
2023Bradyospira talboti Wagner p. S6586

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
RankNameAuthor
subclassOrthogastropoda
orderMurchisoniina
superfamilyEotomarioidea
familyGosseletinidae
subfamilyGosseletininae
subtribeGlabrocingulides
genusBradyospira
speciestalboti()

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.

Bradyospira talboti Dickins 1963
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height420.514.532.019.57.56
shell diameter411.4--11.4-

Composition: aragonitef
Entire body: yesf
Adult length: 10 to < 100f
Adult width: 10 to < 100f
Ribbing: minorf
Environment: coastal, marineo
Locomotion: slow-movingf
Life habit: epifaunalf
Diet: detritivoref
Vision: limitedf
Created: 2009-06-11 17:54:14
Modified: 2025-08-08 09:12:49
Source: f = family, o = order
References: Bambach et al. 2007, Hendy 2009

Age range: base of the Sakmarian to the top of the Kungurian or 293.52000 to 274.40000 Ma

Collections (10 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Sakmarian293.52 - 290.1Australia (Western Australia) Ptychomphalina talboti (52160 type locality: 85843 85845 101207)
Artinskian290.1 - 283.3Australia (Western Australia) Mourlonia talboti (84574 85325 85987 85996)
Kungurian283.3 - 274.4Malaysia (Perak) Mourlonia talboti (62131)
Kungurian283.3 - 274.4Russian Federation Ptychomphalina talboti (102215)