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Massyla corpulenta

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae

Taxonomy
Massyla corpulenta was named by Landau et al. (2012). Its type specimen is NMB H19626, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is PPP# 1883 - Finger Island [Nancy Point Fm], which is in a Messinian coastal siltstone in the Nancy Point Formation of Panama.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
M. toulae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2012Massyla corpulenta Landau et al. p. 323 figs. figs. 6.3-6.7

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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
superfamilyCancellarioideaGray 1853
familyCancellariidaeGray 1853
subfamilyCancellariinaeGray 1853
genusMassylaAdams and Adams 1854
speciescorpulenta

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.

†Massyla corpulenta Landau et al. 2012
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available