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Volutifusus marylandicus

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae

Taxonomy
Volutifusus marylandicus was named by Petuch (1988). Its type specimen is ANSP 52881, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Chancellor Point [St. Marys Fm], which is in a Miocene coastal sandstone in the St Marys Formation of Maryland.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1988Volutifusus marylandicus Petuch p. 26 figs. pl. 5, figs. 1, 2

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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
familyVolutidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyScaphellinaeAdams and Adams 1858
genusVolutifususConrad 1863
speciesmarylandicus

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.

†Volutifusus marylandicus Petuch 1988
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Diagnosis
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