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Carinaropsis carinatus

Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Pterothecidae

Taxonomy
Carinaropsis carinatus was named by Hall (1847). Its type specimen is AMNH 779/1, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Middleville. Dark Compact Limestone Layer, which is in a Katian carbonate limestone in the Denley Formation of New York. It is the type species of Carinaropsis.

It was corrected as Carinaropsis carinata by Knight (1941), Knight et al. (1960), Wagner (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1847Carinaropsis carinatus Hall p. 183 figs. pl. 40 f. 1a-c
1941Carinaropsis carinata Knight pp. 67 - 68 figs. Plate 14, figures 5a-b
1960Carinaropsis carinata Knight et al. p. 180
2023Carinaropsis carinata Wagner p. 3953

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
RankNameAuthor
orderBellerophontidaUlrich and Scofield 1897
suborderBellerophontina
superfamilyBellerophontoidea()
familyPterothecidae
subfamilyCarinaropsinae()
genusCarinaropsis
speciescarinatus

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.

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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
J. B. Knight 1941Rather small, seemingly phaneromphalous, subspiral to cyrtiform gastropods with very small spire, large body whorl, expanded aperture, and with an anterior notch giving rise to a crest or carina seemingly carrying a selenizone; whorl profile rather strongly subangular at the mid-line of the dorsum, very gently convex over the sides, gently concave close to the laterally flaring apertural margin; nucleus unknown; aperture flaring very moderately at the sides, not at all anteriorly, quite strongly posteriorly, the small spire projecting slightly beyond the posterior flare; the characters within the aperture unknown; outer lip with a seemingly broad sinus culminating dorsally in a seemingly short notch which presumably gives rise to a narrow selenizone at the crest of a small, sharp carina, the margin of the lip leaving the crest of the carina with rather strong forward obliquity which turns roundly backward with strong forward convexity; ornamentation seemingly faint lines of growth alone, shell thin, its structure unknown. The holotype has a length o f about 16 mm. and a width of 19 mm.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragoniteo
Composition 2: low Mg calciteo
Entire body: yesg
Adult length: 10 to < 100g
Adult width: 10 to < 100g
Adult height: 10 to < 100g
Folds: noneg
Ribbing: noneg
Spines: noneg
Internal reinforcement: noneg
Locomotion: actively mobilef
Life habit: epifaunalf
Diet: detritivoref
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2009-06-05 18:27:18
Modified: 2009-06-05 20:27:18
Source: g = genus, f = family, o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Knight et al. 1960, Hendy 2009
Collections
No collection or age range data are available