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Luria (Tessellata) cahuzaci

Gastropoda - Cypraeidae

Taxonomy
Luria (Tessellata) cahuzaci was named by Dolin and Lozouet (2004). Its type specimen is MNHN-IM-2000-3690, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Estoti St-Paul-les-Dax, which is in a Chattian perireef or subreef sandstone in the Falun de St. Paul-les-Dax Formation of France.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2004Luria (Tessellata) cahuzaci Dolin and Lozouet p. 20 figs. PI. 9 f. 1a-e, 2

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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
superfamilyCypraeoidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyCypraeidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyLuriinaeSchilder 1832
genusLuria(Jousseaume 1884)
subgenusTessellata
speciescahuzaci

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.

†Luria (Tessellata) cahuzaci Dolin and Lozouet 2004
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
L. Dolin and P. Lozouet 2004La coquille, solide, de taille moyenne, est fusiforme, a spire fortement saillanre. Le canal siphonal est ouvert, bien delimite, formam un ponret court mais puissant, retrousse -plus que rehausse- dorsalemenr par rapport a la sole venrrale, aplanie, en demie June. l:ouverture est etroite, pratiquemenr rectiligne. Le pli terminal courbe est court, horizontal, formam un T avec la lame interne verticale, terminee en spatule. La fossula, en forme de cuilleron, lisse ainsi que I' aire columellaire, parte a son bard calleux 7 gras denricules en gourtes d' eau. La levre interne parte 24 petits denricules limites par I' angulation. Le canal exhalant allonge, courbe, faiblemenr dejete adapicalemenr, est peu profond et mal delimite par les extremites des levres interne et externe fuyantes. La levre externe, epaisse, a un contour adapertural sinusoidal, garni de 30( +2) denricules allonges ; elle est fortemenr declive en son tiers anrerieur.