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Anchura baptos

Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae

Taxonomy
Anchura baptos was named by Elder and Saul (1996). Its type specimen is USNM 485427, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS M5906, Dip Creek, which is in a Maastrichtian marine siliciclastic in California.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1996Anchura baptos Elder and Saul p. 394 figs. 6.5, 6.6

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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
superfamilyStromboidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyAporrhaidaeGray 1850
genusAnchuraConrad 1860
speciesbaptos

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.

†Anchura baptos Elder and Saul 1996
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Diagnosis
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