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Echinophoria dalli

Gastropoda - Cassidae

Taxonomy
Galeodea dalli was named by Dickerson (1917) [DISTRIBUTION: Oligocene; Washington.]. Its type specimen is CAS 419, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is CAS loc. 181, Cowlitz River, 4mi E. of Vader, which is in an Eocene coastal sandstone/conglomerate in Washington.

It was recombined as Trachydolium dalli by Howe (1926); it was recombined as Phalium (Echinophoria) dalli by Abbott (1968); it was recombined as Echinophoria dalli by Durham (1942), Durham (1944), Beu (2008), Beu (2010) and Hendy (2020).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1917Galeodea dalli Dickerson p. 176 figs. PI. 30, Figs. 8a and 8b
1926Trachydolium dalli Howe
1926Galeodea dalli Schenck p. 86
1938Galeodea dalli Effinger p. 382
1942Echinophoria dalli Durham p. 185
1944Echinophoria dalli Durham p. 166
1968Phalium (Echinophoria) dalli Abbott p. 107
2008Echinophoria dalli Beu p. 362
2010Echinophoria dalli Beu p. 243
2020Echinophoria dalli Hendy

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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
superfamilyTonnoidea(Suter 1913)
familyCassidaeLatreille 1825
subfamilyPhaliinaeBeu 1981
genusEchinophoriaSacco 1890
speciesdalli()

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.

Echinophoria dalli Dickerson 1917
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Diagnosis
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