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Turritella xylina

Gastropoda - Turritellidae

Taxonomy
Turritella xylina was named by Squires and Saul (2006) [TYPE LOCALITY: CAS 69111, Budden Canyon Fm, North Fork Cottonwood Creek, Shasta County, California (Cenomanian). TYPE REPOSITORY: CAS, California.]. Its type specimen is CAS 69111.02 and is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is CAS 69111 - Bald Hills Mbr, Budden Canyon Fm, which is in a Cenomanian offshore siliciclastic/mudstone in the Budden Canyon Formation of California.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2006Turritella xylina Squires and Saul pp. 51-52 figs. figs. 10-12

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
superfamilyCerithioidea(Férussac 1819)
familyTurritellidaeLovén 1847
subfamilyTurritellinaeLovén 1847
genusTurritellaLamarck 1799
speciesxylina

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.

Turritella xylina Squires and Saul 2006
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitec
Entire body: yesg
Adult length: 10 to < 100g
Adult width: 10 to < 100g
Adult height: 10 to < 100g
Thickness: thing
Folds: noneg
Ribbing: minorg
Spines: noneg
Internal reinforcement: noneg
Locomotion: facultatively mobileg
Life habit: semi-infaunalg
Diet: suspension feederg
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2004-02-29 18:26:02
Modified: 2018-03-04 19:51:38
Source: g = genus, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Cenomanian to the top of the Cenomanian or 99.60000 to 93.90000 Ma

Collections (7 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9USA (California) Turritella xylina (type locality: 69622 222136)
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5USA (California) Turritella robertiana (1787 1789 1791 1799 1808)