Crassispira annella

Crassispira annella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Crassispira
Species:	C. annella
Binomial name
Crassispira annella Woodring 1928
Synonyms
† Crassispira (Crassispira) annellaWoodring 1928

Crassispira annella is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies. ^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 8 mm; its diameter 3 mm.

Distribution

Fossils have been found in Pliocene strata of the Bowden Formation of Jamaica; also on Saint Thomas; age range: 3.6 to 2.588 Ma

References

1. Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Crassispira annella

• Woodring, W.P. (1928). "Miocene mollusks from Bowden, Jamaica. 2. Gastropods and discussion of results". Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication. 385 (VII): 158. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
• W. P. Woodring. 1970. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoining parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(D):299–452
• A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.

External links

• Fossilworks : Crassispira annella