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Sinuitina acutilira

Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae

Taxonomy
Bellerophon acutilira was named by Hall (1859). It is not a trace fossil.

It was recombined as Protowarthia acutilira by Ulrich and Scofield (1897); it was corrected as Bellerophon acutilirata by Clarke and Swartz (1913); it was recombined as Sinuitopsis acutilira by Rollins and Batten (1968); it was recombined as Sinuitina acutilira by Blodgett et al. (1999) and Wagner (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1859Bellerophon acutilira Hall
1879Bellerophon acutilira Hall figs. pl. 25 f. 4-8
1897Protowarthia acutilira Ulrich and Scofield
1913Bellerophon acutilirata Clarke and Swartz p. 666
1968Sinuitopsis acutilira Rollins and Batten
1999Sinuitina acutilira Blodgett et al. p. 1086
2023Sinuitina acutilira Wagner p. 145

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

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.

Sinuitina acutilira Hall 1859
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Diagnosis
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