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Surcula evermanni

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Clavatulidae

Taxonomy

Surcula evermanni was named by Hanna (1924).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Clavatula javana, Clavatula javana, Pleurotoma libyca, Pleurotoma sucabumiana, S. avia, S. bardini, S. chinensis, S. crassicosta, S. destefanii, S. diademata, S. exorta, S. fissicosta, S. hauniensis, S. inarata, S. intermedia, S. johnstrupi, S. laevigata, S. lanceolata, S. macilenta, S. microdonta, S. miqueli, S. nasuta, S. nuervagranada, S. perlonga, S. rosenkrantzi, S. rostrata, S. rostrata, S. sismondiana, S. streptopleura, S. striatula, S. taltibia, S. textiliosa, S. torelli, S. terebralis, S. boeggildi, S. koeneni, S. camposi, Turricula drilliaeformis, Turricula everwyni, Turricula gembacana, Turricula hannonica, Turricula jogjacartensis, Turricula kelirensis, Turricula nanggulanensis, Turricula pamotanensis, Turricula plagiaria, Turricula plagioptyx, Turricula pollii, Turricula pulchra, Turricula reevei, Turricula rembangensis, Turricula samarangana, Turricula tallavignesii, Turricula waringinensis, Turris djiki

Synonyms

Turris pulchra was named by Dickerson (1915). Its type specimen is CAS 338, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UW 1, Cowlitz Formation, which is in a Bartonian marine horizon in the Cowlitz Formation of Washington.

It was replaced with Surcula evermanni by Hanna (1924); it was recombined as Hemipleurotoma pulchra by Turner (1938).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1915	Turris pulchra Dickerson p. 71
1924	Surcula evermanni Hanna p. 182
1938	Hemipleurotoma pulchra Turner p. 71

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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	Clavatulidae	(Gray 1853)
genus	Surcula	Schumacher 1817
species	evermanni

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.

†Surcula evermanni Hanna 1924

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Invalid names: Turris pulchra Dickerson 1915 [replaced]

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: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Bartonian to the top of the Priabonian or 41.03000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (7 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Bartonian	41.03 - 37.71	USA (Washington)	Hemipleurotoma pulchra (52205 52206 203164) Turris pulchra (139020)
Bartonian	41.03 - 37.71	USA (Oregon)	Hemipleurotoma pulchra (200868 201050)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	USA (Washington)	Turris pulchra (202067)