MolluscaBase - Petrafixia Cossmann, 1901 †

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Petrafixia Cossmann, 1901 †

AphiaID

867993 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:867993)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Fusus koeneni Cossmann & Lambert, 1884 † accepted as Petrafixia koeneni (Cossmann & Lambert, 1884) † (type by subsequent designation)

Parent

Mangeliidae P. Fischer, 1883

Original name

Pyramimitra (Petrafixia) Cossmann, 1901 †

Synonymised names

Pyramimitra (Petrafixia) Cossmann, 1901 † · unaccepted (original rank)

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Species Petrafixia annemariae (Lozouet, 2015) †
Species Petrafixia chattica Lozouet, 2017 †
Species Petrafixia eocenica (Garvie, 1996) †
Species Petrafixia koeneni (Cossmann & Lambert, 1884) †

Environment

marine

Fossil range

fossil only

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

(of Pyramimitra (Petrafixia) Cossmann, 1901 †) Cossmann, M. (1901). Essais de paléoconchologie comparée. Quatrième livraison. Paris, The author and Société d'Éditions Scientifiques. 293 pp., 10 pls. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36321572
page(s): 125, 127 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Petrafixia Cossmann, 1901 †. Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=867993 on 2025-09-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2016-01-20 20:24:51Z

created

Bouchet, Philippe

2018-01-23 22:47:31Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

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Sources (3)

original description (of Pyramimitra (Petrafixia) Cossmann, 1901 †) Cossmann, M. (1901). Essais de paléoconchologie comparée. Quatrième livraison. Paris, The author and Société d'Éditions Scientifiques. 293 pp., 10 pls. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36321572
page(s): 125, 127 [details]

source of synonymy Lozouet P. (2015). Nouvelles espèces de gastéropodes (Mollusca: Gastropoda) de l'Oligocène et du Miocène inférieur d'Aquitaine (Sud-Ouest de la France). Partie 5. Cossmanniana. 17: 15-84. [details]

subsequent type designation Kantor Y., Lozouet P., Puillandre N. & Bouchet P. (2014) Lost and found: The Eocene family Pyramimitridae (Neogastropoda) discovered in the Recent fauna of the Indo-Pacific. Zootaxa 3754(3): 239–276. [15 January 2014]
note: fixation of type species under Art. 70.3 [details]