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Hypergonia vermicula

Gastropoda - Cerithimorpha - Orthonemidae

Taxonomy
Murchisonia vermicula was named by Hall (1856). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Spergen Hill, near railroad station at Harristown, southeast of Salem, which is in a Meramecian carbonate limestone in the Salem Formation of Indiana.

It was recombined as Solenospira vermicula by Ulrich and Scofield (1897); it was recombined as Murchisonia (Murchisonia) vermicula by Yochelson and Saunders (1967); it was recombined as Hypergonia vermicula by Wagner (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1856Murchisonia vermicula Hall p. 27
1882Murchisonia vermicula Whitfield p. 87 figs. pl. 9 f. 11
1883Murchisonia vermicula Hall p. 361 figs. pl. 32 f. 11
1897Solenospira vermicula Ulrich and Scofield
1967Murchisonia (Murchisonia) vermicula Yochelson and Saunders p. 135
2023Hypergonia vermicula Wagner p. 3828

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
orderCerithimorpha
familyOrthonemidae
genusHypergonia()
speciesvermicula()

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.

†Hypergonia vermicula Hall 1856
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitec
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: epifaunalc
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2004-02-29 11:40:59
Modified: 2010-02-11 01:35:02
Source: c = class
Reference: Kiessling 2004

Age range: Meramecian or 343.00000 to 335.50000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Meramecian343.0 - 335.5USA (Indiana) Murchisonia vermicula (129910 129912 129930)