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<mods:title>Early Paleogene brackish-water molluscs from the Caballas Formation of the East Pisco Basin (Southern Peru)</mods:title>
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Genus
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[536,685,211,236]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">Rhombopsis</emphasis>
Gardner, 1916
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species:
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<emphasis box="[338,522,278,302]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">Fusus newberryi</emphasis>
Meek and Hayden, 1857
</taxonomicName>
, by original designation. Cretaceous, Nebraska,
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.
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<subSubSection pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" type="discussion">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[160,262,384,410]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">Remarks</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="39.[160,1156,384,1727]" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Gardneri" authorityYear="1916" box="[160,292,421,445]" class="Gastropoda" family="Melongenidae" genus="Rhombopsis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" phylum="Mollusca" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[160,292,421,445]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">Rhombopsis</emphasis>
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was proposed by
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Gardner (
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, 456) in mid-paragraph, stating a belief that (1)
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<emphasis box="[309,315,455,479]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571"></emphasis>
fulguroids
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could not be placed in
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<emphasis box="[707,802,455,479]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">Pyrifusus</emphasis>
Conrad, 1858
</taxonomicName>
(s.s.); (2) that the
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taxa could be grouped with a subset of
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<emphasis box="[749,844,490,514]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">Pyrifusus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
species exhibiting sinuous outer lips and flattened columellas, as defined by
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; (3) the subset deserved more than the subgeneric rank created by
<bibRefCitation author="Meek FB" box="[649,789,559,583]" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" refId="ref25245" refString="Meek FB. 1876. A report on the invertebrate Cretaceous and Tertiary fossils of the upper Missouri country. U. S. Geological Survey of the Territories (Hayden) Report 9." type="book" year="1876">Meek (1876)</bibRefCitation>
; and (4) Meek
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s (1876) name for the species subset,
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<emphasis box="[382,500,594,618]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">Neptunella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[508,657,594,618]" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" rank="subGenus">subgen. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
, was preoccupied by
<taxonomicName authority="DeVries, 2019" authorityName="DeVries" authorityYear="2019" box="[904,1022,594,618]" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" rank="subGenus" status="subgen. nov." subGenus="Neptunella">
<emphasis box="[904,1022,594,618]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">Neptunella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Gray,
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a ranellid gastropod, and so needed to be replaced
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by
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<emphasis box="[813,945,629,653]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">Rhombopsis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The reader might infer that subsequently described fulguroid
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species (
<bibRefCitation author="Gardner JA" box="[880,1037,663,687]" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" pagination="12 - 45" refId="ref23758" refString="Gardner JA. 1916. Systematic Paleontologyi Upper Cretaceous. Mollusca. In: Clark WBi editor. Maryland Geological Surveyi Upper Cretaceous. Baltimore (MD): Johns Hopkins Press; p. 371 - 733 i plates. 12 - 45." type="book chapter" year="1916">
Gardner
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, 457
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463) were considered examples of the newly elevated and renamed
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<emphasis box="[982,1100,698,722]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">Neptunella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, i.e.
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<emphasis box="[160,292,732,756]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">Rhombopsis</emphasis>
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, although
<bibRefCitation author="Gardner JA" box="[429,605,732,756]" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" pagination="12 - 45" refId="ref23758" refString="Gardner JA. 1916. Systematic Paleontologyi Upper Cretaceous. Mollusca. In: Clark WBi editor. Maryland Geological Surveyi Upper Cretaceous. Baltimore (MD): Johns Hopkins Press; p. 371 - 733 i plates. 12 - 45." type="book chapter" year="1916">Gardner (1916)</bibRefCitation>
still used
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<emphasis box="[742,837,732,756]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">Pyrifusus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in her description of the
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species:
<taxonomicName authority="DeVries, 2019" authorityName="DeVries" authorityYear="2019" box="[376,552,767,791]" class="Gastropoda" family="Melongenidae" genus="Pyrifusus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="marylandicus" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis box="[376,552,767,791]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">P. marylandicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[564,659,767,791]" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
,
<taxonomicName authority="DeVries, 2019" authorityName="DeVries" authorityYear="2019" box="[673,785,767,791]" class="Gastropoda" family="Melongenidae" genus="Pyrifusus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="vittatus" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis box="[673,785,767,791]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">P. vittatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[798,892,767,791]" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
,
<taxonomicName authority="DeVries, 2019" authorityName="DeVries" authorityYear="2019" box="[906,1112,767,791]" class="Gastropoda" family="Melongenidae" genus="Pyrifusus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="monmouthensis" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis box="[906,1112,767,791]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">P. monmouthensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
,
<emphasis box="[222,326,802,826]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">P. cuneus</emphasis>
Whitfield,
<date box="[450,511,802,826]" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" value="1892-01">1892,</date>
<taxonomicName authority="DeVries, 2019" authorityName="DeVries" authorityYear="2019" box="[519,646,802,826]" class="Gastropoda" family="Melongenidae" genus="Pyrifusus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="whitfieldi" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis box="[519,646,802,826]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">P. whitfieldi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[655,746,802,826]" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
, and
<taxonomicName authority="Whitfieldi 1892" authorityName="Whitfieldi" authorityYear="1892" box="[809,1094,802,826]" class="Gastropoda" family="Melongenidae" genus="Pyrifusus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="elevata">
<emphasis box="[809,915,802,826]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">P. elevata</emphasis>
Whitfield, 1892
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="39.[160,1156,384,1727]" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">
<bibRefCitation author="Sohl NF" box="[192,318,836,860]" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" pagination="153 - 344" refId="ref26411" refString="Sohl NF. 1964. Neogastropodai Opisthobranchiai and Basommatophora from the Ripleyi Owl Creeki and Prarie Bluff Formations. U S Geol Survey Prof Pap. 331 - B: 153 - 344." type="book chapter" year="1964">Sohl (1964)</bibRefCitation>
addressed the scope of the genus
<taxonomicName authorityName="Gardneri" authorityYear="1916" box="[722,851,836,860]" class="Gastropoda" family="Melongenidae" genus="Rhombopsis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" phylum="Mollusca" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[722,851,836,860]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">Rhombopsis</emphasis>
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in his monograph on Late Cretaceous molluscs from
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and
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. From a number of
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species,
<bibRefCitation author="Sohl NF" box="[160,280,906,930]" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" pagination="153 - 344" refId="ref26411" refString="Sohl NF. 1964. Neogastropodai Opisthobranchiai and Basommatophora from the Ripleyi Owl Creeki and Prarie Bluff Formations. U S Geol Survey Prof Pap. 331 - B: 153 - 344." type="book chapter" year="1964">
Sohl (
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, 196) accepted only
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<emphasis box="[527,773,906,930]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">Pyrifusus marylandicus</emphasis>
Gardner, 1916
</taxonomicName>
as an example of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Gardneri" authorityYear="1916" box="[160,289,940,964]" class="Gastropoda" family="Melongenidae" genus="Rhombopsis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" phylum="Mollusca" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[160,289,940,964]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">Rhombopsis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Later on,
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Sohl (
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</bibRefCitation>
, 199) distinguished between
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<emphasis box="[851,980,940,964]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">Rhombopsis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and the closely related
<taxonomicName authority="Stephensoni 1941" authorityName="Stephensoni" authorityYear="1941" box="[244,556,975,999]" class="Gastropoda" family="Melongenidae" genus="Deussenia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" phylum="Mollusca" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[244,351,975,999]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">Deussenia</emphasis>
Stephenson, 1941
</taxonomicName>
, on the basis of the presence of a strongly developed subsutural collar (weak or absent on the former genus, strong on the latter genus). Nevertheless,
<bibRefCitation author="Sohl NF" box="[318,447,1045,1069]" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" pagination="153 - 344" refId="ref26411" refString="Sohl NF. 1964. Neogastropodai Opisthobranchiai and Basommatophora from the Ripleyi Owl Creeki and Prarie Bluff Formations. U S Geol Survey Prof Pap. 331 - B: 153 - 344." type="book chapter" year="1964">Sohl (1964)</bibRefCitation>
proceeded to describe a new species,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Sohl" authorityYear="1964" box="[908,1064,1045,1069]" class="Gastropoda" family="Melongenidae" genus="Rhombopsis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="molinoensis">
<emphasis box="[908,1064,1045,1069]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">R. molinoensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, with a broad subsutural collar. The figures of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Sohl" authorityYear="1964" box="[602,756,1079,1103]" class="Gastropoda" family="Melongenidae" genus="Rhombopsis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="molinoensis">
<emphasis box="[602,756,1079,1103]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">R. molinoensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation author="Sohl NF" box="[773,886,1079,1103]" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" pagination="153 - 344" refId="ref26411" refString="Sohl NF. 1964. Neogastropodai Opisthobranchiai and Basommatophora from the Ripleyi Owl Creeki and Prarie Bluff Formations. U S Geol Survey Prof Pap. 331 - B: 153 - 344." type="book chapter" year="1964">
Sohl
<date box="[832,886,1079,1103]" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" value="1964-01">1964</date>
</bibRefCitation>
, pl. 24, figs. 14, 15) are biconic, rather than fusiform, and have a uniformity of spiral sculpture (narrow primary spiral cords from the base of the subsutural collar to the tip of the siphonal canal, all crossing the axial ribs) also seen in the
<typeStatus box="[447,496,1183,1207]" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">type</typeStatus>
species of
<emphasis box="[617,888,1183,1207]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Gardneri" authorityYear="1916" box="[617,748,1183,1207]" class="Gastropoda" family="Melongenidae" genus="Rhombopsis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" phylum="Mollusca" rank="genus">Rhombopsis</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Meek and Haydeni" authorityYear="1857" box="[758,888,1183,1207]" class="Gastropoda" family="Fasciolariidae" genus="Fusus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="newberryi">R. newberryi</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
(see
<bibRefCitation author="Stanton TW" box="[945,1092,1183,1207]" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" pagination="1 - 60" refId="ref26616" refString="Stanton TW. 1920. The fauna of the Cannonball Marine Member of the Lance Formation. U S Geol Survey Prof Pap. 128 - A: 1 - 60." type="book chapter" year="1920">
Stanton
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, pl. 7, fig. 8a, 8b). These characters are not seen in a figure of the Late Cretaceous species from Tennessee,
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<emphasis box="[286,415,1253,1277]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">Rhombopsis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
?
<taxonomicName authority="Wadei 1926" authorityName="Wadei" authorityYear="1926" box="[438,717,1253,1277]" class="Gastropoda" family="Melongenidae" genus="Rhombopsis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="orientalis">
[sic]
<emphasis box="[487,583,1253,1277]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">orientalis</emphasis>
Wade, 1926
</taxonomicName>
(
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Sohl
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, pl. 24, fig. 5), nor in figure of the Late Cretaceous
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<emphasis box="[386,486,1287,1311]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">R. gracilis</emphasis>
(Stanton, 1920)
</taxonomicName>
from
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.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="39.[160,1156,384,1727]" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">
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Sohl (
<date box="[259,314,1322,1346]" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" value="1964-01">1964</date>
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, 199) questioned Olsson
<emphasis box="[602,608,1322,1346]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571"></emphasis>
s (1944) assignment to
<taxonomicName authorityName="Gardneri" authorityYear="1916" box="[884,1016,1322,1346]" class="Gastropoda" family="Melongenidae" genus="Rhombopsis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" phylum="Mollusca" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[884,1016,1322,1346]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">Rhombopsis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
of the Late Cretaceous species,
<taxonomicName authority="Olssoni 1944" authorityName="Olssoni" authorityYear="1944" box="[385,693,1357,1381]" class="Gastropoda" family="Melongenidae" genus="Rhombopsis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="meridionalis">
<emphasis box="[385,544,1357,1381]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">R. meridionalis</emphasis>
Olsson, 1944
</taxonomicName>
, from the
<collectingCountry box="[810,898,1357,1381]" name="Haiti" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">Tortuga</collectingCountry>
Formation of northern Peru, based on a siphonal canal curved to a greater extent than seen in North American Cretaceous species.
</paragraph>
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The proper separation of these small Late Cretaceous fasciolariids (or melongenids) is beyond the scope of this study. It can be noted that among the taxa falling within the scope of discussion addressing
<taxonomicName authorityName="Gardneri" authorityYear="1916" box="[527,659,1530,1554]" class="Gastropoda" family="Melongenidae" genus="Rhombopsis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" phylum="Mollusca" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[527,659,1530,1554]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">Rhombopsis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, there is a subset of species with fusiform profiles, a weak or absent subsutural collar, and primary and secondary spiral cords:
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Stantoni" baseAuthorityYear="1920" class="Gastropoda" family="Melongenidae" genus="Rhombopsis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="gracilis">R. gracilis</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Wadei" authorityYear="1926" box="[251,379,1599,1623]" class="Gastropoda" family="Melongenidae" genus="Rhombopsis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="orientalis">R. orientalis</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
(Tennessee),
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<emphasis box="[536,710,1599,1623]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">R. marylandicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Maryland), and
<taxonomicName authorityName="Olssoni" authorityYear="1944" box="[907,1069,1599,1623]" class="Gastropoda" family="Melongenidae" genus="Rhombopsis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="meridionalis">
<emphasis box="[907,1069,1599,1623]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">R. meridionalis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(northern
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). Late Cretaceous specimens from the central Peruvian Andes tentatively assigned to
<taxonomicName authorityName="Gardneri" authorityYear="1916" box="[307,439,1669,1693]" class="Gastropoda" family="Melongenidae" genus="Rhombopsis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" phylum="Mollusca" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[307,439,1669,1693]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">Rhombopsis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by
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do not resemble any taxa of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Gardneri" authorityYear="1916" box="[160,292,1703,1727]" class="Gastropoda" family="Melongenidae" genus="Rhombopsis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Neogastropoda" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571" phylum="Mollusca" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[160,292,1703,1727]" italics="true" pageId="39" pageNumber="1571">Rhombopsis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, whether the genus is defined broadly or narrowly.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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