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Lirobittium interfossum

Gastropoda - Procerithiidae

Taxonomy
Rissoina interfossa was named by Carpenter (1864). It is extant. Its type specimen is USNM 224860, a shell.

It was recombined as Bittium (Lirobittium) interfossa by Bartsch (1911); it was recombined as Bittium interfossa by Jordan (1926); it was recombined as Bittium interfossum by Woodring et al. (1946); it was recombined as Lirobittium interfossum by Hendy (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1864Rissoina interfossa Carpenter p. 656
1911Bittium (Lirobittium) interfossa Bartsch p. 401 figs. Plate 51, figs. 2 and 6
1926Bittium interfossa Jordan p. 246
1946Bittium interfossum Woodring et al.
2021Lirobittium interfossum Hendy

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
RankNameAuthor
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
—Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—Cerithiimorpha(Golikov and Starobogatov 1975)
familyProcerithiidaeCossmann 1905
subfamilyProcerithiinaeCossmann 1905
genusLirobittiumBartsch 1911
speciesinterfossum(Carpenter 1864)

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.

Lirobittium interfossum Carpenter 1864
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitec
Locomotion: actively mobilesubo
Life habit: epifaunalsubo
Diet: grazersubo
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2009-09-10 07:18:02
Modified: 2009-09-10 09:18:02
Source: subo = suborder, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Piacenzian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 3.60000 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections (10 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.588USA (California) Bittium interfossum (186031)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781USA (California) Bittium interfossum (223033)
Early/Lower Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117USA (California) Bittium interfossum (223075)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Mexico (Baja California) Bittium interfossa (96592 96593)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117USA (California) Bittium interfossum (201624)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129USA (California) Bittium interfossum (203095 223525)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (California) Bittium interfossa (96589 160361)