Vasum gurabicum

Vasum gurabicum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Turbinellidae
Subfamily:	Vasinae
Genus:	Vasum
Species:	†V. gurabicum
Binomial name
	†Vasum gurabicum; Maury 1917

Last updated August 11, 2025

Vasum gurabicum (original: vasum dominicense var. gurabicum^[1]) is an extinct species of medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae.^[2]

Description

The height of the shell: 37 mm, its diameter 24 mm.

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species have been found in Miocene and Pliocene strata of the Dominican Republic. (age range: 5.332 to 3.6 Ma)

References

↑ Maury, C. J. (March–April 1917). Written at Cornell University. Bulletins of American paleontology. Vol. v.5:no.22-30 (1911-1917:Nov.-June). Ithaca, New York: Paleontological Research Institution. pp. 84(248), pl. 13(39) fig. 7. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
↑ Fossilworks: Vasum gurabicum

E. H. Vokes. 1998. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 18. The Superfamily Volutacea (in part) (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology 113(354):1-54

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[1] Maury, C. J. (March–April 1917). Written at Cornell University. Bulletins of American paleontology. Vol. v.5:no.22-30 (1911-1917:Nov.-June). Ithaca, New York: Paleontological Research Institution. pp. 84(248), pl. 13(39) fig. 7. Retrieved 28 February 2024.

[2] Fossilworks: Vasum gurabicum

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Vasum gurabicum

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Description

Distribution

References