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Agaronia mississippiensis

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae

Taxonomy

Oliva mississippiensis was named by Conrad (1848). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Vicksburg, which is in a Rupelian marine marl in the Byram Marl Formation of Mississippi.

It was recombined as Agaronia mississippiensis by Harris and Palmer (1947).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

A. acuminata, A. burchi, A. inca, A. inglisia, A. lutaria, A. mathewsoni, A. mediavia, A. plicaria, Olivancillaria cotopaxi, Olivancillaria dotapaxi

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1848	Oliva mississippiensis Conrad p. 289
1947	Agaronia mississippiensis Harris and Palmer p. 410

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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	Olivoidea	(Troschel 1869)
family	Olividae	Latreille 1825
subfamily	Agaroninae	Olson 1956
genus	Agaronia	Gray 1839
species	mississippiensis	()

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.

†Agaronia mississippiensis Conrad 1848

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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 08:23:19

Modified:

2009-09-10 10:23:19

Source: f = family, c = class

References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Bartonian to the top of the Rupelian or 41.03000 to 27.30000 Ma

Collections (14 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Bartonian	41.03 - 37.71	USA (Louisiana)	Agaronia mississippiensis (3534 98855)
Rupelian	33.9 - 27.3	USA (Mississippi)	Agaronia mississippiensis (98525) Oliva mississippiensis (5867 5941 5999 6002 6005 6006 7110 7111 7112 type locality: 84137 177590)