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Turritella peninsularis
Taxonomy
Turritella peninsularis was named by Anderson and Hanna (1935). Its type specimen is CAS 4709 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is CAS loc.1430, Johnson's ranch, midway between Rosario and Santa Catarina Landing, which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian marine horizon in the Rosario Formation of Mexico.
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. 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. 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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| 1935 | Turritella peninsularis Anderson and Hanna p. 25 figs. Plate 10, figure 5 |
| 1958 | Turritella peninsularis Anderson p. 154 figs. Plate 64, figure 6 |
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†Turritella peninsularis Anderson and Hanna 1935
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| F. M. Anderson and G. D. Hanna 1935 | Shell of medium size, robust; whorls subangular ; sutural grooves impressed, deep and broad; sides of whorls flattened or slightly concave; surface almost smooth on holotype, ornamented by faint revolving threads crossed by sinuous lines of growth; aperture sub-quadrate; spire high, tap ering gradually to apex; whorls rounded on shoulders. |
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Maastrichtian to the top of the Thanetian or 70.60000 to 56.00000 Ma
Collections (9 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | Mexico (Baja California) | Turritella peninsularis (type locality: 200117) | |
| Maastrichtian | Mexico (Baja California) | Turritella peninsularis (158099) | |
| Maastrichtian | USA (California) | Turritella peninsularis (83774) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (California) | Turritella peninsularis (218668 218669) | |
| Danian | USA (California) | Turritella peninsularis (221983) | |
| Danian | Mexico | Turritella peninsularis (47948) | |
| Thanetian | Mexico (Baja) | Turritella peninsularis (176456) | |
| Late/Upper Paleocene | USA (California) | Turritella peninsularis (214150) |