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Eupleura olssoni

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae

Taxonomy
Eupleura olssoni was named by Vokes (1989) [DISTRIBUTION: Late Miocene; Ecuador.]. Its type specimen is USNM 445402, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is TU 1507 - Punta Verde [Angostura Fm], which is in a Miocene coastal siliciclastic in the Angostura Formation of Ecuador.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
E. pterina

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1989Eupleura olssoni Vokes pp. 114-116 figs. pl. 1, figs. 6, 7
2005Eupleura olssoni Herbert p. 310

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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
superfamilyMuricoideade Costa 1776
familyMuricidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyOcenebrinaeCossmann 1903
genusEupleuraAdams and Adams 1853
speciesolssoniVokes 1989

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.

†Eupleura olssoni Vokes 1989
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available