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Pleuroploca trapezium
Taxonomy
Murex trapezium was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type species of Pleuroploca.
It was recombined as Pleuroploca trapezia by Landau and Marques da Silva (2010); it was recombined as Pleuroploca trapezium by Snyder et al. (2012).
It was recombined as Pleuroploca trapezia by Landau and Marques da Silva (2010); it was recombined as Pleuroploca trapezium by Snyder et al. (2012).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1758 | Murex trapezium Linnaeus |
| 2010 | Pleuroploca trapezia Landau and Marques da Silva p. 78 |
| 2012 | Pleuroploca trapezium Snyder et al. |
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Pleuroploca trapezium Linnaeus 1758
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Calabrian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 1.80000 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calabrian | South Africa | Pleuroploca trapezium (173265) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | Kenya | Pleuroploca trapezium (81099) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Saudi Arabia | Pleuroploca trapezium (192720) |