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Modulus tamanensis

Gastropoda - Modulidae

Taxonomy
Modulus tamanensis was named by Maury (1925) [DISTRIBUTION: Miocene; Trinidad and Tobago.]. Its type specimen is USNM 352686, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is USGS 8301, which is in a Miocene marine siliciclastic in Trinidad and Tobago.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
M. biconicus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1925Modulus tamanensis Mansfield p. 49
1925Modulus tamanensis Maury p. 237 figs. pl. 40, figs. 2, 3
2008Modulus tamanensis Landau et al. p. 456
2010Modulus tamenensis Landau and Marques da Silva p. 16

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
superfamilyCerithioidea(Férussac 1819)
familyModulidaeFischer 1884
genusModulusGray 1842
speciestamanensisMaury 1925

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.

†Modulus tamanensis Maury 1925
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Diagnosis
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