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Busycon radix

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae

Taxonomy

Busycon radix was named by Gardner (1947) [DISTRIBUTION: Early Miocene; Florida.]. Its type specimen is USNM 371804, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is USGS Loc. 2646 - Oak Grove [Oak Grove Sand], which is in a Burdigalian marine sandstone in the Oak Grove Formation of Florida.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

B. adversarius, B. amoenum, B. aruanum, B. bladenense, B. burnsii, B. caricum, B. chowanense, B. coronatum, B. duerri, B. fusiforme, B. incile, B. maximum, B. maximum, B. maximus, B. montforti, B. montfortis, B. pachyus, B. perversum, B. perversum, B. planulatum, B. pyrum, B. spiratum, B. spiratum, B. spiratus, B. stellatum, B. tampaense, B. tampaense, B. tampaense, B. titan, B. willcoxi, B. willcoxiana, B. pyrum, B. branneri, B. proterum

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1947	Busycon radix Gardner pp. 452-453 figs. pl. XLIX, figs. 17, 18
2008	Busycon radix Hendy et al.

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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	Buccinoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Melongenidae	Gill 1867
subfamily	Busyconinae	Wade 1917
genus	Busycon	Röding 1798
species	radix

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.

†Busycon radix Gardner 1947

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

aragonitec

Entire body:

yesg

Adult width:

100 to < 1000g

Adult height:

100 to < 1000g

Thickness:

intermediateg

Folds:

noneg

Ribbing:

minorg

Spines:

minorg

Internal reinforcement:

noneg

Locomotion:

actively mobilef

Life habit:

epifaunalf

Diet:

carnivoref

Vision:

limitedc

Created:

2009-03-16 10:35:12

Modified:

2009-03-16 12:35:12

Source: g = genus, f = family, c = class

References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Abbott and Dance 1986

Age range: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Serravallian or 20.45000 to 11.63000 Ma

Collections (5 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian	20.45 - 15.98	USA (Florida)	Busycon radix (type locality: 42482 42682)
Serravallian	13.82 - 11.63	USA (Florida)	Busycon radix (68970 111204 136943)