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Tropidodiscus curvilineatus

Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae

Taxonomy
Bellerophon curvilineatus was named by Conrad (1842). It is not extant. Its type specimen is AMNH Hall collection 4042. It is the type species of Tropidodiscus, Oxydiscus, Tropidocyclus.

It was recombined as Tropidocyclus curvilineatus by de Koninck (1882); it was recombined as Oxydiscus curvilineatus by Koken (1889) and Ulrich and Scofield (1897); it was recombined as Tropidodiscus curvilineatus by Meek and Worthen (1866), Knight (1941), Knight et al. (1960), HornĂ½ (1963), Linsley (1968), Jhaveri (1969), Tassell (1977), Cook (1995), Heidelberger (2001) and Wagner (2023).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1842Bellerophon curvilineatus Conrad p. 269 figs. pl. 16 f. 7
1861Bellerophon curvilineatus Hall p. 94 figs. pl. 22 f. 1-6
1866Tropidodiscus curvilineatus Meek and Worthen p. 160
1882Tropidocyclus curvilineatus de Koninck p. 81
1889Oxydiscus curvilineatus Koken p. 390
1897Oxydiscus curvilineatus Ulrich and Scofield p. 852
1908Bellerophon curvilineatus Knod p. 504
1941Tropidodiscus curvilineatus Knight pp. 360 - 362 figs. pl. 9 f. 5a-c
1960Tropidodiscus curvilineatus Knight et al. p. 179 figs. f. 95.1
1963Tropidodiscus curvilineatus HornĂ½ p. 120
1968Tropidodiscus curvilineatus Linsley pp. 366, 368 - 369
1969Tropidodiscus curvilineatus Jhaveri p. 156
1977Tropidodiscus curvilineatus Tassell p. 234
1995Tropidodiscus curvilineatus Cook p. 430
2001Tropidodiscus curvilineatus Heidelberger p. 32
2023Tropidodiscus curvilineatus Wagner p. 470

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classGastropoda
orderBellerophontidaUlrich and Scofield 1897
superfamilyTropidodiscoidea
familyTropidodiscidae()
genusTropidodiscus
speciescurvilineatus()

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: aragoniteo
Composition 2: low Mg calciteo
Entire body: yesg
Adult length: 10 to < 100g
Adult width: 10 to < 100g
Adult height: 10 to < 100g
Folds: noneg
Ribbing: minorg
Spines: noneg
Internal reinforcement: noneg
Locomotion: slow-movingo
Life habit: low-level epifaunalo
Diet: detritivoreo
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2009-03-04 10:26:57
Modified: 2009-06-05 20:57:30
Source: g = genus, o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy 2009

Age range: base of the Pridoli to the top of the Eifelian or 423.00000 to 387.70000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Pridoli423.0 - 419.2Russian Federation Tropidodiscus curvilineatus (13958)
Emsian407.6 - 393.3Vietnam Tropidodiscus curvilineatus (83329)
Eifelian393.3 - 387.7USA (New York) Bellerophon curvilineatus (166208)