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Straparollus

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Gastropoda
    Subclass:  
Prosobranchia
    Order:  
Archaeogastropoda
    Suborder:  
Macluritina
    Superfamily:  
Euomphalacea
    Family:  
Euomphaladae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Straparollus DEMONTFORT, 1810
    Type Species:  
S. dionysii


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Fig. 108,1. *S. (E.) pentangulatus Sowerby, L.Carb., Eng.; 1a,b, oblique from above and below, X1.


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

cosmop


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Sil.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Rhuddanian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
443.07
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
M.Perm.
    Ending International Stage:  
Capitanian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
259.55


Description

Shape variable, with almost complete range from moderately high conispiral to discoidally hyperstrophic, channel (probably exhalant) or slight sinus on outer-upper angulation. [Restudy of original description shows that spelling Straparolus was a printing error subject to automatic correction.]




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