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Sassia carlea

Gastropoda - Ranellidae

Taxonomy

Sassia carlea was named by Dockery (1993) [m. kosnik taxon no: 2644].

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Caronia flandrica, Charonia antiqua, Charonia benoisti, Charonia bicincta, Charonia bjerringi, Charonia briarti, Charonia cnneata, Charonia colubrina, Charonia curtula, Charonia dumortieri, Charonia flandrica, Charonia flandrica, Charonia flandriea, Charonia formosa, Charonia mariae, Charonia multigrana, Charonia multigranifera, Charonia nodularia, Charonia planicostata, Charonia planisulcata, Charonia reticulosa, Charonia scabriuscula, Charonia simplicostata, Charonia striatula, Charonia tarbelliana, Charonia tritonea, Charonia tuberculosa, Charonia vincenti, Charonia viperina, Eutritonium permutabile, S. abbotti, S. antiqua, S. appeninica, S. arguta, S. bicegoi, S. bileneata, S. bjerringi, S. borsoni, S. conradiana, S. delafossei, S. expansa, S. faxense, S. flandrica, S. foveolata, S. granosa, S. inornatum, S. laevigata, S. monilifera, S. oligostira, S. rutoti, S. sussexiensis, S. tarbelliana, S. tortirostris, S. tuberculifera, S. abbreviata, S. fennemai, S. marwicki, S. pahaoaensis, S. subspinosum

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1993	Sassia carlea Dockery

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Gastropoda
subclass	Caenogastropoda	(Cox 1959)

Rank	Name	Author
—	Sorbeoconcha	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—	Hypsogastropoda	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorder	Latrogastropoda	Riedel 2000
superfamily	Tonnoidea	(Suter 1913)
family	Ranellidae	Gray 1854
subfamily	Cymatiinae	Iredale 1913
genus	Sassia	(Bellardi 1872)
species	carlea	Dockery 1993

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Sassia carlea Dockery 1993

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

aragonitec

Locomotion:

actively mobilef

Life habit:

epifaunalf

Diet:

carnivoref

Vision:

limitedc

Created:

2009-09-10 07:59:47

Modified:

2009-09-10 09:59:47

Source: f = family, c = class

References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Campanian to the top of the Middle Campanian or 83.60000 to 72.20000 Ma

Collections (4 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Campanian - Middle Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	USA (Mississippi)	Sassia carlea (7456 32139 32141 32142)