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Eupleura caudata

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae

Taxonomy
Ranella caudata was named by Say (1822) [DISTRIBUTION: Late Pliocene-Recent; Massachusetts-Florida. TYPE: Holotype missing (ANSP).]. It is extant.

It was recombined as Bursa (Eupleura) caudata by Holmes (1858); it was recombined as Eupleura caudata by Dall (1890), Gardner (1948), Abbott (1954), Woodring (1959), Richards (1962), Spencer and Campbell (1987), Vokes (1989), DeVries (2005), Herbert (2005) and Landau and Marques da Silva (2010).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
E. pterina

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1822Ranella caudata Say p. 236
1858Bursa (Eupleura) caudata Holmes p. 62
1890Eupleura caudata Dall p. 144
1948Eupleura caudata Gardner p. 222
1954Eupleura caudata Abbott p. 219
1959Eupleura caudata Woodring p. 219
1962Eupleura caudata Richards p. 80
1987Eupleura caudata Spencer and Campbell p. 63
1989Eupleura caudata Vokes p. 119
2005Eupleura caudata DeVries p. 282
2005Eupleura caudata Herbert p. 296
2010Eupleura caudata Landau and Marques da Silva p. 66

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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
familyMuricidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyOcenebrinaeCossmann 1903
genusEupleuraAdams and Adams 1853
speciescaudata(Say 1822)

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitec
Locomotion: actively mobilef
Life habit: epifaunalf
Diet: carnivoref
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2009-09-10 08:22:24
Modified: 2009-09-10 10:22:24
Source: f = family, c = class
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Miocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 11.60800 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections (50 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Miocene23.03 - 5.333USA (Virginia) Eupleura caudata (61276)
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333Venezuela Eupleura caudata (92751)
Early/Lower Pliocene - Late/Upper Pliocene5.333 - 2.588USA (North Carolina) Eupleura caudata (59330)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.588USA (Florida) Eupleura caudata (59484)
Gelasian2.588 - 1.806USA (North Carolina) Eupleura caudata (71138)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781USA (North Carolina) Eupleura caudata (58897 59316 79339)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781USA (Florida) Eupleura caudata (69029 79788 80025)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117USA (Virginia) Eupleura caudata (7108 7109)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117USA (North Carolina) Eupleura caudata (59313)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117USA (New York) Eupleura caudata (66377)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117USA (New Jersey) Eupleura caudata (66601 66611 66612 66614 66616 66617 66618 66622)
Calabrian1.8 - 0.774USA (Florida) Eupleura caudata (41705)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Florida) Eupleura caudata (34269 69034 96538)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Maryland) Eupleura caudata (66706 66707 66720 66721)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Massachusetts) Eupleura caudata (61268)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (South Carolina) Eupleura caudata (60927 60930 66755 66758 66760 69046)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (North Carolina) Eupleura caudata (66742 66750 66751 69045)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Georgia) Eupleura caudata (20604 20606)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Virginia) Eupleura caudata (57702 57704 57705 57706 69049 80132)