Paupospira tropidophora
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Description
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Order: Murchisoniia
Family: Lophospiridae
Genus: Paupospira (Wagner, 1999)
Species: Paupospira tropidophora (Meek, 1873)
Three turriform dextral specimens with transverse nodes on the body whorls.
*Specimens are missing, one is in the Palaeo Display.
Specifications
| Object name | Paupospira tropidophora |
|---|---|
| ID | UNB-2018-0568 |
| Legal status | Permanent collection |
| Category | Fossil |
| Classification | Domain: Eukaryote Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Subclass: Orthogastropoda |
| Composition | Calcium carbonate |
| Age | Eon: Phanerozoic Era: Paleozoic Period: Ordovician to Late Ordovician |
| Numeric age | 450 Mya |
| Origin | Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A. |
| Pieces | 3 |
| Partial | No |
| Measurements |
Map of Origin
Publications
- F. B. Meek. 1873. Descriptions of the invertebrate fossils of the Silurian and Devonian systems. Geological Survey of Ohio 1(2):1-243
- P. J. Wagner. 1999. The utility of fossil data in phylogenetic analyses: a likelihood example using Ordovician-Silurian species of the Lophospiridae (Gastropoda: Murchisoniina). American Malacological Bulletin 15(1):1-31