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Cassis flintensis

Gastropoda - Cassidae

Taxonomy
Cassis flintensis was named by Mansfield (1940). Its type specimen is USNM 498499, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS 7118, which is in a Rupelian shallow subtidal limestone in the Flint River Formation of Georgia.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
C. abbreviatus, C. mombasana

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1940Cassis flintensis Mansfield p. 214 figs. pl. 27, figs. 47-49
2010Cassis flintensis Beu p. 217

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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
subfamilyCassinaeLatreille 1825
genusCassisScopoli 1777
speciesflintensis

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.

†Cassis flintensis Mansfield 1940
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available