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Bensbergia arculata

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Soleniscidae

Taxonomy
Buccinites arculatus was named by von Schlotheim (1820). It is not a trace fossil. It is the type species of Bensbergia.

It was recombined as Buccinum arculatus by d’Archiac and de Verneuil (1842); it was recombined as Macrocheilus arculata by Goldfuss (1844); it was recombined as Macrochilus arculatus by Roemer (1876); it was recombined as Macrochilina arculata by Holzapfel (1895), Koken (1896), Gürich (1909), Kirchner (1915), Heidelberger (2001) and Cook et al. (2003); it was recombined as Strobeus arculatus by Wenz (1938), Harper (1981) and Kaufhold (1994); it was recombined as Bensbergia arculata by Heidelberger and Koch (2005) and Wagner (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1820Buccinites arculatus von Schlotheim p. 128 figs. pl. 13 f. 1a-b
1842Buccinum arculatus d’Archiac and de Verneuil p. 354 figs. pl. 32 f. 1
1844Macrocheilus arculata Goldfuss p. 29
1876Macrochilus arculatus Roemer figs. pl. 32 f. 6
1895Macrochilina arculata Holzapfel p. 170
1896Macrochilina arculata Koken p. 515
1909Macrochilina arculata Gürich p. 118 figs. pl. 35 f. 5
1915Macrochilina arculata Kirchner p. 240
1938Strobeus arculatus Wenz p. 368
1981Strobeus arculatus Harper p. 181 figs. f. 1B
1994Strobeus arculatus Kaufhold p. 106 figs. pl. 22 f. 4
2001Macrochilina arculata Heidelberger pp. 211 - 212 figs. pl. 22 f. 1-2
2003Macrochilina arculata Cook et al. p. 202
2005Bensbergia arculata Heidelberger and Koch pp. 48 - 49 figs. pl. 19 f. 6-12
2023Bensbergia arculata Wagner p. 2103

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classGastropoda
subclassOrthogastropoda
orderMurchisoniina
superfamilyLoxonematoidea(Koken 1889)
familySoleniscidae
genusBensbergia
speciesarculata()

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Bensbergia arculata von Schlotheim 1820
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Diagnosis
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