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Austrosassia crassicostatus

Gastropoda - Ranellidae

Taxonomy
Triton crassicostatus was named by Tate (1888) [DISTRIBUTION: Cenozoic; Southern Australia.]. It is not a trace fossil.

It was recombined as Austrosassia crassicostatus by Darragh (1970).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
A. mathewi, A. matthewi

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1888Triton crassicostatus Tate pp. 125-126 figs. pl. 11, fig. 4
1970Austrosassia crassicostatus Darragh p. 163

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
RankNameAuthor
—Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
superfamilyTonnoidea(Suter 1913)
familyRanellidaeGray 1854
subfamilyCymatiinaeIredale 1913
genusAustrosassia(Bellardi 1872)
speciescrassicostatus()

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
No diagnoses are available