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genus

Trypanotopsis Gardner, 1945

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Turridae - Turrids

Distribution

Range — Known only by the type species from the lower Claiborne Eocene of Texas.

Description

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

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

Powell, A.W.B. : The Molluscan Families Speightiidae and Turridae. 1966.
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN Paleobiology Database [11801]

Paleobiology Database [https://paleobiodb.org/] [as Trypanotopsis]
Data retrieved on: 30 January 2016
EN The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [1057814]

Rees, T. (compiler): The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [https://www.irmng.org] [as Trypanotopsis Gardner, 1945]
Data retrieved on: 30 November 2019

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Explanations

extinct taxon