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Glyptotomaria apiarium

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae

Taxonomy
Glyptotomaria apiarium was named by Knight (1945). Its type specimen is AMNH 26083, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Loc. 181-T-43 (Q-5) ¼ to ½ mile west and north of Union Hill School, which is in a Missourian marine shale in the Mineral Wells Formation of Texas. It is the type species of Glyptomaria, Glyptotomaria.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1945Glyptotomaria apiarium Knight p. 577 figs. 4a-c
2022Glyptotomaria apiarium Karapunar and Nützel p. 65 fig. 40

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
RankNameAuthor
subclassOrthogastropoda
orderMurchisoniina
superfamilyEotomarioidea
familyGosseletinidae
subfamilyGosseletininae
genusGlyptotomaria
speciesapiarium

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Glyptotomaria apiarium Knight 1945
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
J. B. Knight 1945Conical, trochiform pleurotomarians with slightly convex sides and a flat, anomphalous base; whorls low and wide; the outer whorl-surface above the cord-like basal angle conforming closely to the general surface of the sides of the spire with only shallow, angular sutures separat-ing the outer whorl-faces of succeeding whorls; selenizone impressed below the gen-eral surface, and passing around the whorls about one-third the distance between su-tures above the lower suture, with strong, even lunulae; outer lip with shallow sinus; columeliar lip straight, reflexed; ornamenta-tion above the selenizone revolving and transverse lirae that cross without forming conspicuous nodes, below the selenizone finer revolving lirae and, on the cord-like basal angulation fine transverse lirae, fine transverse lirae dominant.