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Bucania stigmosa

Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae

Taxonomy
Bucania stigmosa was named by Hall (1852). It is a 3D body fossil.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1852Bucania stigmosa Hall p. 92 figs. pl. 28 f. 8, 8a-e

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
RankNameAuthor
orderBellerophontidaUlrich and Scofield 1897
suborderBellerophontina
superfamilyBellerophontoidea()
familyBucaniidae
subfamilyBucaniinae
genusBucania
speciesstigmosa

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Bucania stigmosa Hall 1852
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
J. Hall 1852Convolute, suborbicular; volutions-?, somewhat rapidly enlarging towards the aperture, which is abruptly expanded with a sinus on the dorsal margin; back of the shell rounded, with a sharp carina along the centre; sides of the volutions somewhat rounded, and abruptly depressed into a deep umbilicus; surface marked transversly by elevated lines, diverging and ascending from the carina, and arching over the side into the umbilicus; longitudinally marked by elevated lines parallel to the carina; intermediate spaces rhomboidal or oval.

The surface of this species is regularly decussated by arching transverse and longitudinal striae, leaving rhomboidal spaces between them. Where these elevated lines are somewhat worn, the spaces appear like oval depressions or scars, with the separating lines not strongly defined. In this condition the surface resembles B. punctifrons; but in all the specimens of that shell examined, there are no direct longitudinal striae visible, and the arching transversa ones are very inconspicuous; the puncta, moreover, are proportionally smaller than in the present species.