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Pyrazus

Gastropoda - Batillariidae

Taxonomy
Pyrazus was named by Monfort (1810) [Sepkoski's age data: K Apti R Sepkoski's reference number: 157]. It is extant.

It was reranked as Potamides (Pyrazus) by Martin (1884); it was reranked as Cerithium (Pyrazus) by Termier (1954).

It was assigned to Potamides by Martin (1884); to Cerithium by Termier (1954); to Pyrazidae by Hacobjan (1972); to Potamidinae by Allison (1955), Adegoke (1977), Gliozzi and Malatesta (1983) and Kase (1984); to Potamididae by Olsson (1967) and Beu et al. (1990); to Neotaenioglossa by Sepkoski (2002); and to Batillariidae by Wilson (1993), Pacaud and Le Renard (1995), Harzhauser (2004) and Bouchet et al. (2005).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1810Pyrazus Monfort
1884Potamides (Pyrazus) Martin p. 146
1954Cerithium (Pyrazus) Termier
1955Pyrazus Allison p. 418
1967Pyrazus Olsson p. 38
1972Pyrazus Hacobjan p. 6
1977Pyrazus Adegoke p. 111
1983Pyrazus Gliozzi and Malatesta p. 101
1984Pyrazus Kase p. 137
1990Pyrazus Beu et al. p. 406
1993Pyrazus Wilson p. 113
1995Pyrazus Pacaud and Le Renard p. 156
2002Pyrazus Sepkoski
2004Pyrazus Harzhauser p. 122
2005Pyrazus Bouchet et al. pp. 149, 248

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
RankNameAuthor
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
superfamilyCerithioidea(Férussac 1819)
familyBatillariidae(Thiele 1929)
genusPyrazusMonfort 1810

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.

G. Pyrazus Monfort 1810
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Pyrazus consobrinus Powell and Bartrum 1929
Pyrazus ebeninus Bruguière 1792
Pyrazus elongatum Douvillé 1904
Pyrazus indicus Cox 1931
Pyrazus nigeriensis Adegoke 1977
Pyrazus octogonus Cox 1930
Pyrazus protobeninus Vredenburg 1928
Pyrazus sutherlandi Marwick 1929
Pyrazus valeriae de Verneuil and de Loriere 1868
Pyrazus waitemataensis Powell and Bartrum 1929
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitec
Locomotion: actively mobilesubf
Life habit: epifaunalsubf
Diet: grazersubf
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2009-09-10 07:10:25
Modified: 2009-09-10 09:11:32
Source: subf = subfamily, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Barremian to the top of the Middle Pleistocene or 129.40000 to 0.12600 Ma

Collections (69 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Barremian129.4 - 125.0Portugal P. pailleti (73499)
Barremian - Aptian129.4 - 113.0Portugal P. vicinus (73500 73501)
Aptian125.0 - 113.0Mexico P. maldonadoi (69905 69906) P. scalariformis (69900)
Aptian125.0 - 113.0Portugal P. sp. (73555)
Late/Upper Aptian122.46 - 112.03Egypt P. magharensis, P. sexangulatus (151611 151613)
Late/Upper Aptian122.46 - 112.03Japan P. scalariformis (91287 91299) P. sp. (91296)
Albian113.0 - 100.5Egypt P. valeriae (171276)
Albian113.0 - 100.5Hungary P. michaillensis (74891)
Early/Lower Albian112.03 - 109.0Mexico P. sp. (161077)
Early/Lower Albian112.03 - 109.0Mexico (Jalisco) P. valeriae (115254 115255)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6Egypt P. ornatum (161579)
Late/Upper Albian - Cenomanian105.3 - 93.9Egypt P. valeriae (150677 150876)
Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9Egypt P. valeriae (132848 132849 132850)
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Egypt P. valeriae (140613)
Early/Lower Cenomanian - Middle Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Egypt P. valeriae (150614)
Late/Upper Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Egypt P. valeriae (114794 114795 114798 114810 140581)
Middle Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Egypt P. valeriae (140233 140539)
Middle Cenomanian - Late/Upper Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Egypt P. valeriae (150611)
Middle Turonian93.5 - 89.3USSR P. ljakanicus (3808)
Coniacian89.8 - 86.3Cameroon P. elongatum (177976)
Santonian86.3 - 83.6Germany P. sexangulum (74484)
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6Saudi Arabia P. sp. (184844)
Danian66.0 - 61.6France P. sp. (20816)
Danian66.0 - 61.6Belgium P. montensis (22931)
Paleocene66.0 - 56.0India (Gujarat) P. sp. (171803)
Selandian61.6 - 59.2Nigeria P. nigeriensis (7791)
Selandian - Thanetian61.6 - 56.0Pakistan (North-West Frontier) P. octogonus (52132)
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8Pakistan P. indicus (79074) P. khani (145131)
Early/Lower Eocene55.8 - 48.6Hungary P. sp. (78009)
Middle Eocene48.6 - 37.2Bosnia and Herzegovina Cerithium arapovicense (179744 179745)
Middle Eocene48.6 - 37.2Hungary P. sp. (78020)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3Pakistan P. indicus (183892 183893 183894 183895 183896 183897)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3Italy (Veneto) P. pentagonatus (178203)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3Japan P. miyajimai (70900)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3United Kingdom (England) P. angulatus (8124)
Bartonian41.3 - 38.0United Kingdom (England) P. angulatus (42636 42639)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Bulgaria P. pentagonatus (103739)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Bulgaria (Burgas) P. pentagonatus (102230)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03Greece P. montrosus (76207)
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Pakistan P. protobeninus (77162)
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97India P. das (72033)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.588Indonesia (Kalimantan Timur) P. witkampi (46490)
Pliocene - Pleistocene5.333 - 0.0117USA (Florida) P. scalatus (41749)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781USA (Florida) P. scalatus (41501 41718)
Middle Pleistocene0.781 - 0.126USA (Florida) P. scalatus (67070)