Seraphs (gastropod)

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Seraphs
Temporal range: Danian–Aquitanian
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Seraphsidae
Genus: Seraphs
Montfort, 1810
Type species
Terebellum convolutum
Lamarck, 1803

Seraphs is an extinct genus of sea snails in the family Seraphsidae. Like its modern relative Terebellum , Seraphs had a streamlined shell adapted for burrowing. [1] The earliest species of Seraphs, Seraphs minus, dates to the Danian age of the early Paleocene, while the youngest known species of the genus, Seraphs subconvolutus, dates to the Aquitanian age of the Miocene. [2] The type species of the genus is Terebellum convolutum, now considered a synonym of Seraphs volutatus. [2]

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References

  1. Jung, Peter (1974-11-25). "A revision of the family Seraphsidae (Gastropoda: Strombacea)". Palaeontographica Americana. 8 (47): 1–72.
  2. 1 2 Maxwell, Stephen J.; Rymer, Tasmin L.; Congdon, Bradley C. (22 June 2021). "Resolving phylogenetic and classical nomenclature: A revision of Seraphsidae Jung, 1974 (Gastropoda: Neostromboidae)". Zootaxa. 4990 (3): 401–453. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4990.3.1. PMID   34186750. S2CID   235686526.