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Nihonia shimajiriensis

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cochlespiridae

Taxonomy
Nihonia shimajiriensis was named by MacNeil (1960) [DISTRIBUTION: Miocene-Pliocene; Japan.]. Its type specimen is USNM 562751, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is USGS 17445, Yonabaru, which is in a Pliocene offshore claystone in the Yonabaru Formation of Japan.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
N. transversaria, N. witkampi

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1960Nihonia shimajiriensis MacNeil p. 105 figs. pl. 5, fig 15

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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)
familyCochlespiridae(Powell 1942)
genusNihonia
speciesshimajiriensis

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.

†Nihonia shimajiriensis MacNeil 1960
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available