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Pegocomptus howardi

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae

Taxonomy
Molopophorus howardi was named by Dickerson (1914). Its type specimen is UCMP 11762, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UCMP loc. 2246, Rock Creek, which is in an Eocene shallow subtidal sandstone/shale in the San Francisquito Formation of California. It is the type species of Pegocomptus.

It was recombined as Pseudoliva howardi by Waring (1917); it was recombined as Pegocomptus howardi by Zinsmeister (1983).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1914Molopophorus howardi Dickerson p. 301 figs. pl. 29, figs. 3a and 3b
1917Pseudoliva howardi Waring p. 86 figs. Pl. 12,Figs. 4 and 9
1983Pegocomptus howardi Zinsmeister p. 1296 figs. Figure 2R, S

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
RankNameAuthor
—Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
orderNeogastropodaThiele 1929
superfamilyBuccinoidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyBuccinidaeRafinesque 1815
genusPegocomptus
specieshowardi()

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.

†Pegocomptus howardi Dickerson 1914
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Diagnosis
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