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Leucosyrinx fijiensis
Taxonomy
Leucosyrinx fijiensis was named by Ladd (1982). Its type specimen is USNM 214299, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1982 | Leucosyrinx fijiensis Ladd pp. 64 - 65 figs. pl. 20, f. 14, 15 |
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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.
†Leucosyrinx fijiensis Ladd 1982
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Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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H. S. Ladd 1982 | Medium in size, slender, fusiform. Protoconch not prese~rved; whorls of spire with a strong median keel-like projection composed of rounded nodes that are inclined to the right; nine nodes on penultimate whorl, nodes becoming inconspicuous on the body whorl. Above the peripheral nodes, the surface is smooth except for faint spiral cords and strongly curved lines marking the anal sinus; below the nodular periphery are four or five spiral cords; on body whorl, such cords extend over the entire base. Aperture lenticular, extended anteriorly as a short canal. |
Measurements
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Reference: Kiessling 2004 |
Age range: Early/Lower Miocene or 23.03000 to 15.97000 Ma
Collections: one only
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Early/Lower Miocene | Fiji (Vitu Levu) | Leucosyrinx fijiensis (179499) |