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Ectomaria

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Gastropoda
    Subclass:  
Prosobranchia
    Order:  
Archaeogastropoda
    Suborder:  
Archaeogastropoda? - Suborder Murchisoniina
    Superfamily:  
Murchisoniacea
    Family:  
Murchisoniidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Ectomaria KOKEN, 1896
    Type Species:  
Murchisonia nieszkowskii F. SCHMIDT, 1858


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Fossil Image
Fig. 190,11. E. pagoda (Salter), M.Ord., Can.(Que.), X2.7.


Synonyms

Solenospira


Geographic Distribution

N.Am.-Eu.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
M.Ord.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Dapingian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
471.26
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Ord.
    Ending International Stage:  
Hirnantian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
443.07


Description

With deep angular labral sinus culminating between pair of strong spiral cords, without slit, rounded apex of the sinus generating a pseudoselenizone




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