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Lyrischapa harrisi

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae

Taxonomy
Lyrischapa harrisi was named by Aldrich (1911) [TYPE LOCALITY: Quitman, Mississippi (Lower Claiborne, Eocene). TYPE REPOSITORY: Presumably PRI, New York.]. It is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is PRI 2253, 3.5 miles south of Quitman, which is in a Bartonian marine horizon in the Cook Mountain Formation of Mississippi.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1911Lyrischapa harrisi Aldrich p. 11 figs. pl. 4, fig. 8
1991Lyrischapa harrisi Givens p. 664 figs. 3.1-3.5
2006Lyrischapa harrisi Perrilliat et al. p. 162

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
RankNameAuthor
—Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
orderNeogastropodaThiele 1929
superfamilyMuricoideade Costa 1776
familyVolutidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyVolutinaeRafinesque 1815
genusLyrischapa
speciesharrisi

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.

†Lyrischapa harrisi Aldrich 1911
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Diagnosis
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