Mitreola (gastropod)

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Mitreola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Volutidae
Subfamily:
Volutinae
Tribe:
Lyriini
Genus:
Mitreola

Swainson, 1833
Synonyms [1] [2]
  • Eneata
  • † Mitra (Mitreola)Swainson, 1833
  • Mitreala (misspelling)

Mitreola is a genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae, the volutes. [1]

A genus is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus.

Sea snail common name for snails that normally live in saltwater

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Family is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy; it is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as being the "walnut family".

Contents

'MItreola' also refers to a genus of plants in the Loganiaceae plant family.

Species

Species within the genus Mitreola include: [3]

The Eocene Epoch, lasting from 56 to 33.9 million years ago, is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the Cenozoic Era. The Eocene spans the time from the end of the Paleocene Epoch to the beginning of the Oligocene Epoch. The start of the Eocene is marked by a brief period in which the concentration of the carbon isotope 13C in the atmosphere was exceptionally low in comparison with the more common isotope 12C. The end is set at a major extinction event called the Grande Coupure or the Eocene–Oligocene extinction event, which may be related to the impact of one or more large bolides in Siberia and in what is now Chesapeake Bay. As with other geologic periods, the strata that define the start and end of the epoch are well identified, though their exact dates are slightly uncertain.

Species brought into synonymy

Description

These species were epifaunal carnivores.

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 Mitreola Swainson, 1833 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 17 December 2010.
  2. ↑ The Paleobiology Database Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ The Paleobiology Database Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ Merle & Pacaud & Marivaux, Volutidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of the Lakhra Formation (Earliest Eocene, Sindh, Pakistan): systematics, biostratigraphy and paleobiogeography; Zootaxa, 3826 (1) : 101-138, fig. 1-12. , 2014
  5. ↑ GBIF : Mitreola labratula


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