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Lyria carolinensis

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae

Taxonomy

Lyria carolinensis was named by Kellum (1926) [DISTRIBUTION: Early Miocene; North Carolina.]. It is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is USGS 10655 (John Gilette Farm), Silverdale, Trent marl, Onslow Co., NC, which is in a Miocene marine marl/sandstone in the Trent Formation of North Carolina.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

L. browni, L. citrusensis, L. eidelessertiana, L. hanzawai, L. heilprini, L. heilprini, L. hirugaensis, L. lyroidea, L. magorum, L. mallicki, L. mitraeformis, L. mizuhonica, L. modesta, L. musicina, L. musicina, L. nestor, L. puruensis, L. pycnopleura, L. pycnopleura, L. rex, L. santoensis, L. scabulosa, L. taurinia, L. varicosa, L. wilcoxiana, L. harpa, L. overmanae, L. concinna, L. elongata, L. nestor, L. tehuacana

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1926	Lyria carolinensis Kellum p. 40 figs. pl. 11, figs. 4-5
1943	Lyria carolinensis Richards p. 525
2008	Lyria carolinensis 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)
—	Sorbeoconcha	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)

Rank	Name	Author
—	Hypsogastropoda	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorder	Latrogastropoda	Riedel 2000
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Muricoidea	de Costa 1776
family	Volutidae	Rafinesque 1815
subfamily	Volutinae	Rafinesque 1815
tribe	Lyriini	(Pilsbry and Olsson 1954)
genus	Lyria	Gray 1847
species	carolinensis

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.

†Lyria carolinensis Kellum 1926

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

aragonitec

Locomotion:

actively mobilef

Life habit:

epifaunalf

Diet:

carnivoref

Vision:

limitedc

Created:

2009-09-10 08:23:59

Modified:

2009-09-10 10:23:59

Source: f = family, c = class

References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Oligocene to the top of the Early/Lower Miocene or 27.30000 to 15.98000 Ma

Collections (2 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Oligocene	27.3 - 23.04	USA (North Carolina)	Lyria carolinensis (71652)
Early/Lower Miocene	23.04 - 15.98	USA (North Carolina)	Lyria carolinensis (type locality: 41987)