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Ransonia senuti

Gastropoda - Cypraeidae

Taxonomy
Ransonia senuti was named by Dolin and Lozouet (2004). Its type specimen is MNHN-IM-2000-3725, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Peyrère (=Peyrehorade) marls, which is in a Chattian estuary/bay marl in the Marnes de Saint-Etienne-d’Orthe Formation of France.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2004Ransonia senuti Dolin and Lozouet pp. 38 - 39 figs. PI. 14 fig. 4a-4c

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
RankNameAuthor
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
—Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
superfamilyCypraeoidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyCypraeidaeRafinesque 1815
genusRansoniaSchilder 1935
speciessenuti

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.

†Ransonia senuti Dolin and Lozouet 2004
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
L. Dolin and P. Lozouet 2004La coquille de petite taille, regulierement calleuse, est en forme d'amande; la spire est sai!lante, formam adapicalement avec I' epaississement du pontet posterieur une petite fossette abaxiale. La sole ventrale est regulierement arrondie. Le canal siphonal, peu profond mais relativement allonge, forme un pontet net, fortement margine lateralement. Le pli terminal est court, horizontal, transverse, formam un meplat plongeant, en croissant de June ; il est prolonge par la lame interne torse, terminee en goutte d'eau, qui fait saillie sur l'ouverture, etroite, faiblement parasigmordale. La fossula en cuilleron, concave, parte a son bard epaissi S gras demicules rejoignant par de fins funicules les denticules de la levre interne. I:aire columellaire, excavee longirudinalement, est regulierement parcourue par 14 forts funicules demiculaires. Lalevre interne, faiblement mais regulierement arqw!e, a angulation marquee, parte 19 dcnticules courts, limites a l' angulation. Le canal exhalant peu profond et etroit mais bien de!imite, forme un pontet massif, margine Iateralement. La lfvre externe, trfs Ieghement comprimte en son quart anttrieur, presente une largeur quasi constante ; elle parte 19 gras denticules epais, eloignes les uns des autres et s' allongeant obscurement sur pres de la moitie de sa surface ventrale.