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Poirieria (Panamurex) gatunensis

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae

Taxonomy
Murex (Phyllonotus) gatunensis was named by Brown and Pilsbry (1911). Its type specimen is ANSP 1720, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Murex gatunensis by Brown and Pilsbry (1917); it was recombined as Paziella (Panamurex) gatunensis by Woodring (1959); it was recombined as Poirieria (Panamurex) gatunensis by Vokes (1970) and Landau and Marques da Silva (2010).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. primigena, P. cretacea

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1911Murex (Phyllonotus) gatunensis Brown and Pilsbry
1917Murex gatunensis Brown and Pilsbry p. 34
1959Paziella (Panamurex) gatunensis Woodring p. 217
1970Poirieria (Panamurex) gatunensis Vokes p. 40
2010Poirieria (Panamurex) gatunensis Landau and Marques da Silva p. 65

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
—Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
RankNameAuthor
—Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
orderNeogastropodaThiele 1929
superfamilyMuricoideade Costa 1776
familyMuricidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyMuricinaeda Costa 1776
genusPoirieriaJousseaume 1880
subgenusPanamurex()
speciesgatunensis()

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.

†Poirieria (Panamurex) gatunensis Brown and Pilsbry 1911
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitec
Locomotion: actively mobilef
Life habit: epifaunalf
Diet: carnivoref
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2009-09-10 08:22:24
Modified: 2009-09-10 10:22:24
Source: f = family, c = class
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Late/Upper Pliocene or 20.44000 to 2.58800 Ma

Collections (17 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian20.44 - 15.97Venezuela (Falcon) Paziella gatunensis (60144)
Tortonian11.62 - 7.246Panama (Colon) Paziella gatunensis (145254 145278 145335 145341)
Tortonian11.62 - 7.246Panama Murex gatunensis (82119) Paziella gatunensis (93056 93059 93062 93176 93177) Poirieria gatunensis (82128 92444 92446)
Early/Lower Pliocene5.333 - 3.6Venezuela Poirieria gatunensis (41831 96486)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.588Venezuela Poirieria gatunensis (79710)