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Acrilla (Undiscala) olympicensis

Gastropoda - Epitoniidae

Taxonomy
Acrilla (Undiscala) olympicensis was named by Durham (1937). Its type specimen is UCMP 30185 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UCMP loc. A-6, Twin Rivers, Strait of Juan de Fuca, which is in an Oligocene marine shale in the Pysht Formation of Washington.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Acrilla (Undiscala) olympicensis Durham p. 510 figs. Plate 56, figure 16; Plate 57, figure 22
1944Acrilla (Undiscala) olympicensis Durham p. 159

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
superfamilyEpitonioidea(Berry 1910)
familyEpitoniidaeBerry 1910
genusAcrillaAdams and Adams 1853
subgenusUndiscala(de Boury 1909)
speciesolympicensis

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.

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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
J. W. Durham 1937Shell of medium size; originally about eight or nine moderately convex whorls; sutures fairly deep; ornamented by approximately 25 prominent, very distinctive axial ribs, which have appearance of true axial ribs on lower part of whorl but are strongly compressed laterally on upper part so as to simulate varices; on central portion of whorl are three fairly prominent spiral ribs with interspaces slightly greater in width, and below lowest one faint evidence of a fourth spiral rib is occasionally seen just above the prominent basal keel; on upper portion of whorl for a space about equal to that occupied by the three primary spiral ribs, there is no evidence of any spiral ornamentation, and it is in this area that axial ribs become varix-like; axial ribs pass over basal keel to aperture; numerous fine spiral ribs superimposed on axial ribs on basal disk; aperture ovate.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitef
Composition 2: low Mg calcitef
Locomotion: slow-movingf
Life habit: low-level epifaunalf
Diet: carnivoref
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2007-02-05 23:13:43
Modified: 2011-09-22 17:20:39
Source: f = family, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Beu et al. 1990

Age range: base of the Rupelian to the top of the Late/Upper Oligocene or 33.90000 to 23.04000 Ma

Collections (6 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Rupelian33.9 - 27.3USA (Washington) Acrilla olympicensis (62246)
Chattian27.3 - 23.04USA (Washington) Acrilla olympicensis (52357 52362 180405 208172)
Late/Upper Oligocene27.3 - 23.04USA (Washington) Acrilla olympicensis (type locality: 40737)