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Glyphodeta terebriformis
Taxonomy
Murchisonia terebriformis was named by Hall (1856). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Hunter Valley Quarries, 3 miles northwest of Bloomington, which is in a Meramecian carbonate limestone in the Salem Formation of Indiana.
It was recombined as Glyphodeta terebriformis by Batten (1966) and Wagner (2023).
It was recombined as Glyphodeta terebriformis by Batten (1966) and Wagner (2023).
Synonymy list
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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.
†Glyphodeta terebriformis Hall 1856
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| J. Hall 1856 | Shell extremely elongate, subulate-acute; volutions eight or nine, very convex, marked by a broad spiral band in the centre, last volution ventricose; suture deeply marked; surface ornamented on the upper side of the volutions by fine striae, which extend obliquely backwards to the spiral band, below the band by one or two spiral elevated stria, and on the last volution by four or five similar striae; aperture unknown; umbilicus none. Length .33 of an inch." |