Lost and found: The Eocene family Pyramimitridae (Neogastropoda) discovered in the Recent fauna of the Indo-Pacific
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Kantor, Yuri
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Lozouet, Pierre
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Puillandre, Nicolas
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Bouchet, Philippe
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Zootaxa
2014
3754
3
239
276
journal article
46667
10.11646/zootaxa.3754.3.2
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Pyramimitra?
olssoni
Palmer, 1937
Figures 3
G-H
Pyramimitra olssoni
Palmer, 1937
: 275
, pl. 37 figs 8–9.
Remarks
. Palmer described
Pyramimitra olssoni
from a single broken specimen from the Claiborne Group Middle Eocene of Alabama.
As
noted by
Palmer (1937)
, it has a cerithioid appearance, and is here retained with doubt in the genus
Pyramimitra
.
Pyramimitra? eocenica
Garvie, 1996
Pyramimitra (
Petrafixia
) eocenica
Garvie, 1996
: 92, pl. 20 figs 8–9.
Remarks
.
Pyramimitra eocenica
was described from the Middle Eocene of Central Texas based on young specimens only (up to
3.1 mm
in length), including the
holotype
. Based on differences in sculpture and the lack of columellar plaits, we reject a classification of this species in
Pyramimitra
, but cannot make any decisive conclusion on its correct family or generic position.