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Cancellaria (Pyruclia) laevescens

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae

Taxonomy

Cancellaria laevescens was named by Guppy (1866) [DISTRIBUTION: Miocene-Pliocene; Caribbean.]. It is not a trace fossil.

It was recombined as Cancellaria (Cancellaria) laevescens by Woodring (1928), Woodring (1970); it was recombined as Cancellaria (Pyruclia) laevescens by Jung and Petit (1990), Landau et al. (2007).

Subspecies

Cancellaria (Pyruclia) laevescens portociana

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

C. acuta, C. ancycla, C. bifasciata, C. bifasciatum, C. contorta, C. druidarum, C. eucheea, C. euclethra, C. hartti, C. iickana, C. mitrodita, C. paramoorei, C. picta, C. pirabensis, C. praeindentata, C. pristina, C. sanctifrancisci, C. spherotopleura, C. springvalenensis, C. stibara, C. subtilicancellata, C. waltoniana, C. yonabaruensis, C. zitteli, C. peninsularis, C. decussata, C. crassidiformis, C. atraktoides, C. sphenoidostoma

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1866	Cancellaria laevescens Guppy p. 289 figs. pl. 17, fig. 12
1917	Cancellaria laevescens Maury p. 64
1928	Cancellaria (Cancellaria) laevescens Woodring p. 220
1970	Cancellaria (Cancellaria) laevescens Woodring p. 335
1990	Cancellaria (Pyruclia) laevescens Jung and Petit p. 100
2007	Cancellaria (Pyruclia) laevescens Landau et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Gastropoda
subclass	Caenogastropoda	(Cox 1959)
—	Sorbeoconcha	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)

Rank	Name	Author
—	Hypsogastropoda	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorder	Latrogastropoda	Riedel 2000
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Cancellarioidea	Gray 1853
family	Cancellariidae	Gray 1853
subfamily	Cancellariinae	Gray 1853
genus	Cancellaria	(Olsson 1932)
subgenus	Pyruclia
species	laevescens	(Guppy 1866)

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.

†Cancellaria (Pyruclia) laevescens Guppy 1866

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†Cancellaria (Pyruclia) laevescens portociana Maury 1920

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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 08:07:45

Modified:

2009-09-10 10:07:45

Source: f = family, c = class

References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Late/Upper Pliocene or 3.60000 to 2.58000 Ma

Collections (3 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Pliocene	3.6 - 2.58	Jamaica	Cancellaria laevescens (58522 69092 69093)