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Pararaphistoma

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Gastropoda
    Subclass:  
Prosobranchia
    Order:  
Archaeogastropoda
    Suborder:  
Pleurotomariina
    Superfamily:  
Pleurotomariacea
    Family:  
Raphistomatidae
    Subfamily:  
Raphistomatinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Pararaphistoma VOSTANOVA, 1955
    Type Species:  
Helicites qualteriatus SCHLOTHEIM, 1820


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Synonyms

Pararaphistoma (Climacoraphistoma)


Geographic Distribution

Eu.-N. Am.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Ord.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Tremadocian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
486.85
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Ord.
    Ending International Stage:  
Hirnantian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
443.07


Description

Shell lenticular to low-spired with "stair step" profile, widely phaneromphalous, growth lines sweeping back smoothly from suture, without a sigmoidal bend




References

Vostakova, V. A., 1955, Ordovician gastropods of the Leningrad and Baltic Sea region: Leningrad Universitet Nauchnoissledovate'skii InstitutZemnoi Cory Paleontologischeskaia Laboratoriia, Voprosy Paleontologii, v. 2, p. 82123, pl. 1-8 [all Russ.] (Moskva).


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