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Get your taxes done using TurboTax
What you did was you told TurboTax that you'd enter your 1099-Bs in "summary fashion". In other words, you have hundreds and hundreds, maybe thousands, of trades an instead of listing each trade out on multiple Forms 8949 you'll simple enter "summary" numbers - basically the sum of all proceeds and the sum of all cost bases - and mail in all the detail - every single trade - to the IRS along with Form 8453. One way or the other the IRS wants to see each and every trade. Whatever you send in most adhere closely to the "official" Form 8949; that form lists for each trade the information you've quoted above. Many 1099-Bs these days do follow those guidelines.
Maybe you didn't understand this - you do have to click through a bit of "On Demand Tax Guidance" to gain this understanding - and simple clicked that option without understanding the consequences.
If you only have one or a handful of trades then I'd suggest deleting the trades and staring over with the "Stocks, Mutual Funds, Bonds, Other" interview this time telling TurboTax "I'll enter one sale at a time" and entering that one or handful of trades individually.
Tom Young