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Pterotheca intermedia

Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Pterothecidae

Taxonomy
Pterotheca intermedia was named by Shrock and Raasch (1937) [= Pterotheca attenuata Shrock and Malott, Jour. Geol., 41, 1933: 355.]. Its type specimen is UW 513, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is McCray Quarry (= Kentland Quarry), Division 4, 3 miles east of Kentland, which is in a Turinian carbonate limestone in the McGregor Formation of Indiana.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. spada

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Pterotheca intermedia Shrock and Raasch p. 572 figs. Plate 5, Figs. 10-12

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
RankNameAuthor
orderBellerophontidaUlrich and Scofield 1897
suborderBellerophontina
superfamilyBellerophontoidea()
familyPterothecidae
subfamilyPterothecinae
genusPterotheca
speciesintermedia

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.

†Pterotheca intermedia Shrock and Raasch 1937
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Diagnosis
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