Trochidae Rafinesque, 1815
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https://doi.org/ 10.4202/app.2011.0090 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C687E9-8903-5D6A-25FE-99EA8987FC3A |
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Felipe |
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Trochidae Rafinesque, 1815 |
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Family Trochidae Rafinesque, 1815 View in CoL Genus Lithotrochus Conrad, 1855
Type species: Turritella andii d’Orbigny, 1842 , junior synonym of Pleurotomaria humboldtii Buch, 1839 ; Early Sinemurian–Late Pliensbachian, Early Jurassic, South America.
Remarks.— Damborenea and Ferrari (2008) have recently discussed the systematic classification and provided an emended diagnosis of Lithotrochus . They pointed out that the genus is endemic to South America and has a wide distribution in the Andean region from northern Peru to the central Chubut province in Argentinean Patagonia.
Stratigraphic and geographic range.—Sinemurian–Pliensbachian, Early Jurassic (according to Damborenea and Ferrari 2008); Peru, Chile, and Argentina.
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