Miraclathurella vittata

Miraclathurella vittata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Miraclathurella
Species:	M. vittata
Binomial name
Miraclathurella vittata (Woodring 1928)
Synonyms
† Euclathurella (Miraclathurella) entemmaWoodring, 1928

Miraclathurella vittata is an extinct Pliocene species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies. ^[1] The species was discovered by Wendell Woodring in 1928. ^[2]

Description

The length of the shell attains 12 mm, its diameter 4.1 mm. ^[2] Woodring described the genus Miraclathurella and identified two species. M. vittata was differentiated from M. entemna by a "protoconch of about three whorls, about the last half whorl bearing an anterior keel, behind which lie axial riblets.” ^[3]

Distribution

Fossils of this species were found in Miocene strata in the Bowden Formation, Jamaica; age range: 3.6 to 2.588 Ma.

References

1. Worldwide Moolusc Species Data Base: Miraclathurella vittata
2. Carnegie Institution of Washington; Washington, Carnegie Institution of (1928). Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington.
3. Garcia, Emilio (2016). "The genera Miraclathurella Woodring, 1928 (Gastropoda:Pseudomelatomidae) and Darrylia Garcı´a, 2008 (Gastropoda:?Horaiclavidae), with two proposed new combinations for Darrylia". The Nautilus. 130 (2): 79–81.

• 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.
• B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva. 2010. Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy. Palaeontos 19:1-221

External links

• Fossilworks: Miraclathurella vittata