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Hemisinus bituminifer

Gastropoda - Thiaridae

Taxonomy
Hemisinus bituminifer was named by Cooke (1919) [DISTRIBUTION: ?Oligocene-Miocene; Caribbean.]. Its type specimen is USNM 166993, a partial shell, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is USNM 3652, 5312, which is in a Ypresian/Bartonian coastal tar in Cuba.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
H. bizonatus, H. venezuelensis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1919Hemisinus bituminifer Cooke p. 118 figs. pl. 3, fig. 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
superfamilyCerithioidea(Férussac 1819)
familyThiaridaeTroschel 1857
subfamilySemisinusinae
genusHemisinusSwainson 1840
speciesbituminifer

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.

†Hemisinus bituminifer Cooke 1919
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available