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Tritonalia volutaeformis

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae

Taxonomy
Hemifusus volutaeformis was named by Dickerson (1915). Its type specimen is UCMP 11056, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UCMP 452, Grapevine Canyon, which is in an Eocene marginal marine sandstone/shale in the Tejon Formation of California.

It was recombined as Tritonalia volutaeformis by Anderson and Hanna (1925).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1915Hemifusus volutaeformis Dickerson p. 67 figs. Plate 8, figures 4a, 4b
1925Tritonalia volutaeformis Anderson and Hanna p. 52

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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
superfamilyMuricoideade Costa 1776
familyMuricidaeRafinesque 1815
genusTritonaliaBruguière 1789
speciesvolutaeformis()

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.

†Tritonalia volutaeformis Dickerson 1915
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Diagnosis
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