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Kirengella stabilis

Tergomya - Kiringellida - Hypseloconidae

Taxonomy
Hypseloconus stabilis was named by Berkey (1898). It is not extant. Its type locality is 1 kilometer south of Taylors Falls, half kilometer north of Folsom Island, which is in a Steptoean coastal sandstone in the Franconia Formation of Minnesota.

It was recombined as Kirengella stabilis by Webers et al. (1992), Stinchcomb and Angeli (2002), Yochelson and Webers (2006) and Wagner (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1898Hypseloconus stabilis Berkey p. 286 figs. pl. 19 f. 25, 26; pl. 21 f. 6
1980Hypseloconus stabilis Stinchcomb p. 46 figs. 1K-O
1992Kirengella stabilis Webers et al. p. 196
2002Kirengella stabilis Stinchcomb and Angeli p. 969
2006Kirengella stabilis Yochelson and Webers pp. 40 - 42 fig. 6
2023Kirengella stabilis Wagner p. S3231

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
RankNameAuthor
phylumMollusca
classTergomya
orderKiringellida()
familyHypseloconidae
genusKirengella
speciesstabilis()

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.

Kirengella stabilis Berkey 1898
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
E. L. Yochelson and G. F. Webers 2006High, conical shells with a moderately well rounded aperture; apex is unknown; apertural area is not far removed from a subcentral position; both longer and shorter surfaces are essentially straight; sides are well rounded; surface of the steinkern is seemingly smooth; details of the outer surface are unknown.