ID: 687382
pID: 24706
Taxonomic rank: 27
Author of the record: Jan Delsing
Created: 2009-09-21 23:35:56 - User Jan Delsing
URL: http://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id687382/ Text function: [[t:687382;Trypanotopsis]]
Distribution
Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 56031
Text Type: 3
Page: 0
Created: 2009-09-21 23:43:26 - User Jan Delsing
Language: EN
Range — Known only by the type species from the lower Claiborne Eocene of Texas.
Description
Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 56029
Text Type: 1
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Created: 2009-09-21 23:42:25 - User Jan Delsing
Language: EN
Shell small, 10.5 mm , narrowly fusiform, with a tall rather straight-sided spire and a narrow ovate body-whorl, with a short straight anterior canal. Protoconch obtuse, smooth, of about two whorls. Adult sculpture of numerous flat-topped spiral cords, weak on the shoulder slope but strong from the periphery to the anterior end. Upper spire whorls axially costate, but axials become progressively weaker and finally obsolete before the body-whorl is reached. The anal sinus is described as broad spreading U-shaped.
Interchangeable taxa
Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 56030
Text Type: 19
Page: 0
Created: 2009-09-21 23:42:59 - User Jan Delsing
Language: EN
The genus seems to be close to Trypanotoma, which has a similar protoconch and sinus but the adult sculpture is different, with its margining of the sutures, both above and below, and strong peripheral nodes between.
Sources
Text ID: 56032
Text Type: 18
Page: 0
Created: 2009-09-21 23:43:44 - User Jan Delsing
Language: EN
Powell, A.W.B. : The Molluscan Families Speightiidae and Turridae. 1966.
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