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Lirobittium catalinensis

Gastropoda - Procerithiidae

Taxonomy
Bittium catalinensis was named by Bartsch (1907). It is extant.

It was recombined as Bittium (Lirobittium) catalinense by Bartsch (1911), Oldroyd (1925); it was recombined as Bittium armillatum catalinense by Valentine and Meade (1961); it was misspelled as Bittium catalinense by Dibblee (1966); it was recombined as Lirobittium catalinensis by Hendy (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1907Bittium catalinensis Bartsch
1911Bittium (Lirobittium) catalinense Bartsch p. 402 figs. Plate 51, fig. 1
1925Bittium (Lirobittium) catalinense Oldroyd p. 16
1961Bittium armillatum catalinense Valentine and Meade p. 16
1966Bittium catalinense Dibblee p. 58
2021Lirobittium catalinensis 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
speciescatalinensis(Bartsch 1907)

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
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: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Pliocene to the top of the Middle Pleistocene or 3.60000 to 0.12900 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 2.588 Ma

Collections (9 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.588USA (California) Bittium catalinense (200403)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117USA (California) Bittium catalinensis (201624)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129USA (California) Bittium catalinense (96894 138723 202632 203113 222663) Bittium catalinensis (203114 207886)