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Turritella merriami
Taxonomy
Turritella merriami was named by Dickerson (1913). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UCMP loc. 1853, Marysville Buttes, which is in a Ypresian marine horizon in the Capay Formation of California.
Subspecies
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
T. adela, T. agronomica, T. alcida, T. altiliroides, T. ameghinoi, T. anguillana, T. bilara, T. bilboraensis, T. biplicata, T. boycensis, T. brankampi, T. callizona, T. capensis, T. carninata, T. caseyi, T. chalybeatensis, T. chirena, T. claytonensis, T. cobbani, T. codellana, T. collazica, T. crocus, T. diastropha, T. difficilis, T. distincta, T. falconensis, T. fascialiis, T. femina, T. fischeri, T. forgemoli, T. gardnerae, T. hilli, T. jenkinsi, T. kauffmani, T. knysnaensis, T. kowiensis, T. laevissima, T. leonensis, T. lineolta, T. litharia, T. malaspina, T. mcnairyensis, T. megalobasis, T. meunieri, T. millepunctata, T. ministeri, T. molarium, T. monserratensis, T. multilinata, T. mundula, T. neusensis, T. novaesemljae, T. paraensis, T. pedroana, T. pelusae, T. perrieri, T. pirabica, T. pliorecens, T. pontoni, T. poronaiensis, T. premimetes, T. rostrata, T. rubricollis, T. soaresana, T. submortoni, T. tanaguraensis, T. trilara, T. triplicata, T. turneri, T. wagneriana, T. wasana, T. webbi, T. wiedenmayeri, T. pllanigyrata, T. conspicablis, T. chichibuensis, T. premortoni, T. waltonensis
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1913 | Turritella merriami Dickerson p. 284 figs. Plate 13, figures 6a, 66, and 6c |
| 1927 | Turritella merriami Clark and Woodford p. 119 figs. Pl 21, figs 6-9 |
| 1938 | Turritella merriami Turner p. 85 |
| 1941 | Turritella merriami Merriam p. 83 figs. Plate 14, figures 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 |
| 1987 | Turritella merriami Squires p. 25 fig. 23 |
| 1992 | Turritella merriami Squires and Demetrion p. 26 |
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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.
†Turritella merriami Dickerson 1913
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†Turritella merriami brevitabulata Merriam and Turner 1937
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Collections (23 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Paleocene | Canada (Yukon) | Turritella merriami (41535) | |
| Ypresian | USA (Oregon) | Turritella merriami (200748 200802 200804 200808 200809 200873) | |
| Ypresian | USA (California) | Turritella merriami (52420 52421 52422 52423 52424 52425 52426 52428 52431 type locality: 122337 122339 178748 200270) | |
| Eocene | USA (California) | Turritella merriami (91476) | |
| Middle Eocene | USA (California) | Turritella merriami (194431) | |
| Bartonian | USA (California) | Turritella merriami (122295) |