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Baylea tenera

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae

Taxonomy
Baylea tenera was named by Karapunar and Nützel (2022). Its type specimen is SNSB-BSPG 2011 X 238, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry, which is in a Desmoinesian coastal mixed carbonate-siliciclastic in the Boggy Formation of Oklahoma.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2022Baylea tenera Karapunar and Nützel p. 15 figs. 8, 9

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
RankNameAuthor
subclassOrthogastropoda
orderMurchisoniina
superfamilyEotomarioidea
familyGosseletinidae
subfamilyGosseletininae
subtribeGlabrocingulides
genusBaylea
speciestenera

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.

Baylea tenera Karapunar and Nützel 2022
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragoniteo
Entire body: yesf
Adult length: 10 to < 100f
Adult width: 10 to < 100f
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: epifaunalo
Diet: detritivoreo
Vision: limitedo
Created: 2009-06-11 17:54:14
Modified: 2009-06-11 19:54:14
Source: f = family, o = order
References: Hendy 2009, Bambach et al. 2007

Age range: Desmoinesian or 312.80000 to 306.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Desmoinesian312.8 - 306.0USA (Oklahoma) Baylea tenera (type locality: 91530)