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Murex porrectus Brander, 1766
The Natural History Museum
London, United Kingdom
Details
- Title: Murex porrectus Brander, 1766
- Specific epithet: porrectus
- Scientific name authorship: Brander, 1766
- Phylum: Mollusca
- Order: Apogastropoda
- Locality: Hordwell
- Latest period or highest system: Paleogene
- Latest era or highest erathem: Cenozoic
- Latest epoch or Highest series: Eocene
- Latest eon or highest eonothem: Phanerozoic
- Latest age or Highest age: Bartonian
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Identification Qualifier: W. Pilkington, 1804, Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. 7, p. 117, pi. 11, fig. 7
- Higher geography: Europe; England; Hampshire; Hordwell
- Higher classification: Animalia; Mollusca; Gastropoda; Orthogastropoda; Apogastropoda; Caenogastropoda; Sorbeoconcha; Muric
- Group: Barton Group
- Genus: Murex
- Formation: Barton Clay Formation
- Family: Muricidae
- Earliest period or lowest system: Paleogene
- Earliest era or lowest erathem: Cenozoic
- Earliest epoch or lowest series: Eocene
- Earliest eon or Lowest eonothem: Phanerozoic
- Earliest age or Lowestst age: Bartonian
- Country: England
- Continent: Europe
- Class: Gastropoda
- Bed: Horizons A3, D, F, H
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