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Girtyspira canaliculata

Gastropoda - Meekospiridae

Taxonomy
Bulimella canaliculata was named by Hall (1856). It is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Bulimorpha canaliculata by Whitfield (1882), Hall (1883), Keyes (1889), Cumings (1906), Girty (1915) and Snider (1915); it was recombined as Girtyspira canaliculata by Thein and Nitecki (1974), Pan and Erwin (2002) and Wagner (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1856Bulimella canaliculata Hall pp. 29 - 30
1882Bulimorpha canaliculata Whitfield pp. 74 - 75 figs. pl. 8 f. 41
1883Bulimorpha canaliculata Hall p. 367 figs. pl. 31 f. 41
1889Bulimorpha canaliculata Keyes p. 300
1906Bulimorpha canaliculata Cumings pp. 1343 - 1344 figs. pl. 25 f. 41
1915Bulimorpha canaliculata Girty p. 221
1915Bulimorpha canaliculata Snider p. 116
1974Girtyspira canaliculata Thein and Nitecki pp. 218 - 219 figs. f. 98
2002Girtyspira canaliculata Pan and Erwin p. 33
2023Girtyspira canaliculata Wagner p. 3837

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
RankNameAuthor
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
familyMeekospiridae
genusGirtyspira
speciescanaliculata()

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
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