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Exilia alanbeui

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Ptychatractidae

Taxonomy
Exilia alanbeui was named by Nielsen (2005) [DISTRIBUTION: Late Miocene; Chile.]. Its type specimen is SGO.PI 6371, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Punta El Fraile, which is in a Burdigalian coastal sandstone in the Ranquil Formation of Chile.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
E. wellmani

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2005Exilia alanbeui Nielsen pp. 154-155 figs. figs. 2-14

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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
superfamilyTurbinelloidea
familyPtychatractidae
genusExiliaConrad 1860
speciesalanbeui

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.

†Exilia alanbeui Nielsen 2005
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available