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Microdrillia tersa

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Borsoniidae

Taxonomy
Microdrillia tersa was named by Woodring (1928) [DISTRIBUTION: Early Pliocene; Jamaica.]. Its type specimen is USNM 369415, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
M. citrona, M. hebetika, M. infans, M. minutissima, M. robustula, M. serratula

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1928Microdrillia tersa Woodring p. 197 figs. pl. 8, fig. 14
1970Microdrillia tersa Woodring p. 390

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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
orderNeogastropodaThiele 1929
superfamilyConoidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyBorsoniidae(Bellardi 1875)
genusMicrodrilliaCasey 1903
speciestersa

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.

†Microdrillia tersa Woodring 1928
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available