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Calliostoma supragranosum

Gastropoda - Trochidae

Taxonomy

Calliostoma supragranosum was named by Carpenter (1864). It is extant. Its type specimen is USNM 14925, a shell.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

C. bella, C. caribbeanum, C. depressa, C. deshayesi, C. doliarum, C. dryope, C. etchegoinense, C. interruptum, C. kleppi, C. mapucherum, C. nicolum, C. nudum, C. papilla, C. poppelacki, C. silicatum, C. singunese, C. sinistrorsum, C. styricum, C. subexcavata, C. tauromiliare, C. yucatecanum, C. zonamesta, C. laureatum, C. kikaianum, C. striphna, C. covacevichi, C. ikebei

Synonyms

Calliostoma splendens was named by Carpenter (1864). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Calliostoma supragranosum by Hendy (2020).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1864	Calliostoma supragranosum Carpenter
1864	Calliostoma splendens Carpenter p. 653
1959	Calliostoma supragranosum Kanakoff and Emerson p. 26
2021	Calliostoma supragranosum Hendy

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca

Rank	Name	Author
class	Gastropoda
subclass	Vetigastropoda	(Salvini-Plawen 1980)
superfamily	Trochoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Trochidae	Rafinesque 1815
subfamily	Calliostomatinae	Thiele 1924
genus	Calliostoma	Swainson 1840
species	supragranosum	Carpenter 1864

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.

Calliostoma supragranosum Carpenter 1864

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Invalid names: Calliostoma splendens Carpenter 1864 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

aragonitec

Entire body:

yesg

Adult width:

10 to < 100g

Adult height:

10 to < 100g

Thickness:

thing

Folds:

noneg

Ribbing:

minorg

Spines:

noneg

Internal reinforcement:

noneg

Locomotion:

actively mobileg

Life habit:

epifaunalg

Diet:

carnivoreg

Vision:

limitedc

Created:

2009-03-16 10:36:49

Modified:

2009-09-10 10:50:56

Source: g = genus, c = class

References: Abbott and Dance 1986, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pliocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 3.60000 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections (13 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Pliocene	3.6 - 2.588	USA (California)	Calliostoma splendens (200398 239463 239470)
Early/Lower Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene	2.588 - 0.0117	USA (California)	Calliostoma supragranosum (223075)
Pleistocene	2.588 - 0.0117	USA (California)	Calliostoma supragranosum (201624 237610)
Middle Pleistocene	0.774 - 0.129	USA (California)	Calliostoma supragranosum (202965 203113 203114)
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	USA (California)	Calliostoma supragranosum (96566 160361 202936) Calliostoma supragranosum, Calliostoma splendens (59063)