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Odostomia santana

Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae

Taxonomy

Odostomia santana was named by Packard (1922). Its type specimen is UCMP 12299 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UCMP loc. 2169, Santa Ana Mountains, which is in a Campanian marine horizon in the Williams Formation of California.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

O. americana, O. beringi, O. byramensis, O. californica, O. callimene, O. columbiana, O. donilla, O. eugena, O. impressa, O. kuiperi, O. lingfengensis, O. livida, O. minutissima, O. nota, O. oldroydi, O. ova, O. pedroana, O. peregrina, O. phanella, O. plicata, O. pyramis, O. sanctorum, O. sapia, O. sasagensis, O. tenuisculpta, O. turbonilloides, O. unidentata, O. vicksburgella, O. virginalis, O. sallespissiensis, O. pallidaeformis

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1922	Odostomia santana Packard p. 428 figs. Plate 36, figure 2

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Gastropoda
order	Heterostropha	()

Rank	Name	Author
infraclass	Euthyneura	(Spengel 1881)
—	Tectipleura	Schrödl et al. 2011
—	Panpulmonata	Jörger et al. 2010
superorder	Pylopulmonata	Teasdale 2017
superfamily	Pyramidelloidea	(Gray 1840)
family	Pyramidellidae	Gray 1840
genus	Odostomia	Fleming 1817
species	santana

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.

†Odostomia santana Packard 1922

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Diagnosis

Reference	Diagnosis
E. L. Packard 1922	Shell very small, imperforate; broadly conical; over twice as long as wide; at least five whorls, only four being completely shown; body whorl large, about twice as high as the three preceding ones; whorls slightly convex, with an indistinct appressed suture; aperture ovate, rounded anteriorly but somewhat pointed posteriorly; outer lip thin, simple; inner lip smooth; shell smooth and polished. Length of type, 4.5 mm.; width of body whorl, about 2 mm.