Leucosyrinx rugata

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Leucosyrinx rugata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Leucosyrinx
Species:
L. rugata
Binomial name
Leucosyrinx rugata
(Conrad, 1862)
Synonyms
  • Surcula rugataConrad, 1862
  • Nodisurculina rugata(Conrad, 1862)

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

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Description

(Original description) The fusiform shell is turriculate. It contains 10 whorls, the lower half obtusely ribbed. The upper half are concave, subangular, with much curved, rugose lines of growth. Beneath the suture whorls are obtusely subcarinated, with distinct revolving lines over the ribbed portion, minute and obsolete above it. The suture is profound. The body whorl and the aperture are striated. The aperture is slightly curved. [2]

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species were found in Miocene strata of Delaware, USA; age range: 20.43 to 15.97 Ma.

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References

  1. Fossilworks: Leucosyrinx rugata
  2. T.A. Conrad, Descriptions of New Genera, Subgenera and Species of Tertiary and Recent Shells; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 14 (1862), pp. 284-291]