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Turritella uvasana sargeanti

Gastropoda - Turritellidae

Taxonomy
Turritella sargeanti was named by Anderson and Hanna (1925). Its type specimen is CAS 284, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is CAS loc. 244, Live Oak Canyon, which is in an Eocene marginal marine sandstone/shale in the Tejon Formation of California.

It was recombined as Turritella uvasana sargeanti by Merriam (1941).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1925Turritella sargeanti Anderson and Hanna p. 125
1941Turritella uvasana sargeanti Merriam pp. 96 - 97 figs. Plate 16, figures 1, 2, 3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
RankNameAuthor
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
superfamilyCerithioidea(Férussac 1819)
familyTurritellidaeLovén 1847
subfamilyTurritellinaeLovén 1847
genusTurritellaLamarck 1799
speciesuvasana
subspeciessargeanti()

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.

Turritella uvasana sargeanti Anderson and Hanna 1925
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitec
Entire body: yesg
Adult length: 10 to < 100g
Adult width: 10 to < 100g
Adult height: 10 to < 100g
Thickness: thing
Folds: noneg
Ribbing: minorg
Spines: noneg
Internal reinforcement: noneg
Locomotion: facultatively mobileg
Life habit: semi-infaunalg
Diet: suspension feederg
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2004-02-29 18:26:02
Modified: 2018-03-04 19:51:38
Source: g = genus, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Lutetian or 47.80000 to 41.30000 Ma

Collections (7 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Eocene56.0 - 33.9USA (California) Turritella sargeanti (type locality: 207112)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3USA (California) Turritella uvasana (200654 200766 202094)
Middle Eocene47.8 - 37.71USA (California) Turritella uvasana (194184 194185 194193)