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Pterolabrella hawera

Gastropoda - Vitrinellidae

Taxonomy
Elachorbis hawera was named by Laws (1940). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Waihi Beach, which is in a Waipipian coastal mudstone in the Tangahoe Formation of New Zealand.

It was recombined as Pterolabrella hawera by Beu et al. (1990).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1940Elachorbis hawera Laws p. 48 figs. 22, 29
1990Pterolabrella hawera Beu et al. p. 406

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
RankNameAuthor
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
—Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superfamilyTruncatelloideaGray 1840
familyVitrinellidaeBush 1897
genusPterolabrellaMaxwell 1969
specieshawera()

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.

†Pterolabrella hawera Laws 1940
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitec
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: epifaunalc
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2009-09-10 07:56:06
Modified: 2009-09-10 09:56:06
Source: f = family, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Waipipian or 3.70000 to 3.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Waipipian3.7 - 3.0New Zealand Elachorbis hawera (87884)