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Peruvispira delicata

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae

Taxonomy
Peruvispira delicata was named by Chronic (1949). Its type specimen is AMNH 27005/2:1, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is AMNH301, Bed 32b, Rasuvilca Hills section 9, Pajege Canyon, which is in an Asselian/Sakmarian marine limestone in Peru. It is the type species of Peruvispira.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1949Peruvispira delicata Chronic
1953Peruvispira delicata Chronic pp. 139 - 140 figs. pl. 28 f. 9-12
1989Peruvispira delicata Batten p. 35 figs. Pl 7, fig 22; pl 8, fig 1
1992Peruvispira delicata Blodgett p. 148
2002Peruvispira delicata Pan and Erwin p. 7
2023Peruvispira delicata Wagner p. 4382

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
RankNameAuthor
subclassOrthogastropoda
orderMurchisoniina
superfamilyEotomarioidea
familyGosseletinidae
subfamilyCoelozoninae
genusPeruvispira
speciesdelicata

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.

Peruvispira delicata Chronic 1949
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Diagnosis
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