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Eotomaria

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Gastropoda
    Subclass:  
Prosobranchia
    Order:  
Archaeogastropoda
    Suborder:  
Pleurotomariina
    Superfamily:  
Pleurotomariacea
    Family:  
Eotomariidae
    Subfamily:  
Eotomariinae - tribe Eotomariides
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Eotomaria Ulrich & SCOFIELD, 1897
    Type Species:  
E. canalifera Ulrich in Ulrich & SCOFIELD, 1897


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Fig. 118,7. *E. canalifera Ulrich, M.Ord., Tenn., X1.


Synonyms

Spiroraphe


Geographic Distribution

N. Am.-Eu.-NE.Asia


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:  
Sil.
    Ending International Stage:  
Pridoli
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
419


Description

Sublenticular, coeloconoidal, minutely phaneromphalous; deep sinus culminating in short slit that generates a selenizone just above periphery.




References

Ulrich, E. O. \& Scofield, W. H., 1897, The Lower Silurian Gastropoda of Minnesota: Minnesota Geol. Survey, v. 3, pt. 2, p. 813-1081, pl. 61-82 (Minneapolis).


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