Pleurotomella insignifica

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Pleurotomella insignifica
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Original image of a shell of †Pleurotomella insignifica
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Pleurotomella
Species:
†P. insignifica
Binomial name
†Pleurotomella insignifica
(Heilprin, 1879)
Synonyms

Pleurotoma insignifaHeilprin, 1879

Pleurotomella insignifica is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae. [1]

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Description

(Original description) The fusiform shell shows prominent revolving lines below the middle of the whorl. The spire is elevated. The shell contains about five angular whorls. The siphonal canal is short, obliquely curved. The aperture is contracted. [2]

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species were found in Eocene strata in Alabama, USA.

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References

  1. ↑ MNHN, Paris: Pleurotomella insignifica
  2. ↑ Heilprin, Angelo (1879). "On Some New Eocene Fossils from the Claiborne Marine Formation of Alabama". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 31 (2): 211–216. JSTOR   4060324.


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