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Loxisonia hormotoma

Gastropoda - Orthonematidae

Taxonomy
Loxisonia hormotoma was named by Batten (1985). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is H.S. Lee Mine No. 8, Kinta Valley near Kampar, which is in a Kungurian shallow subtidal limestone in the H.S. Lee Formation of Malaysia.

It was recombined as Loxosonia hormotoma by Frýda (2000).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1985Loxisonia hormotoma Batten pp. 10-11 figs. 10-11
2000Loxosonia hormotoma Frýda p. 369
2023Loxisonia hormotoma Wagner p. 4646

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
superfamilyOrthonematoideaNützel and Bandel 2000
familyOrthonematidae()
genusLoxisonia
specieshormotoma

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.

Loxisonia hormotoma Batten 1985
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
R. L. Batten 1985A moderately high-spired shell with elongate, rounded to somewhat flattened whorls with a relatively narrow selenizone, apparently without margins, located near the suture; the suture is sharp and deeply impressed; ornament is faintly developed collabral threads or ribs which are barely raised above the whorl surface and are rounded to somewhat flattened; whorls embrace well below the rounded periphery located at midwhorl; the base is rounded and continuous with the outer whorl surface; siphonal canal well developed and narrow; hemiomphalus to anomphalus.