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Sinuitina portulacoides

Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae

Taxonomy
Sinuitina portulacoides was named by Campbell and Engel (1963). Its type specimen is F.7573, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is L76, Rangari Section, 6.2 km north, 2.5 km east of Kelvin, which is in a Hastarian carbonate limestone in the Rangari limestone Formation of Australia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1963Sinuitina portulacoides Campbell and Engel p. 90 figs. pl. 6 f. 20-24
1988Sinuitina portulacoides Yoo p. 239
1994Sinuitina portulacoides Yoo p. 70
2023Sinuitina portulacoides Wagner p. 5811

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classGastropoda
orderBellerophontidaUlrich and Scofield 1897
superfamilyTropidodiscoidea
familyTropidodiscidae()
genusSinuitina
speciesportulacoides

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.

Sinuitina portulacoides Campbell and Engel 1963
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragoniteo
Composition 2: low Mg calciteo
Locomotion: slow-movingo
Life habit: low-level epifaunalo
Diet: detritivoreo
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2007-09-18 08:53:22
Modified: 2009-10-11 15:09:03
Source: o = order, c = class
Reference: Kiessling 2004

Age range: Hastarian or 358.86000 to 353.70000 Ma

Collections (10 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Hastarian358.86 - 353.7Australia (New South Wales) Sinuitina portulacoides (43901 type locality: 75621)
Kinderhookian358.86 - 351.9Australia (New South Wales) Sinuitina portulacoides (75614)
Tournaisian358.86 - 346.7Australia (New South Wales) Sinuitina portulacoides (43904 43948 43949 44080 44088 44158 44161)