Vasum tuberculatum

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Vasum tuberculatum
Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.MOL.213502 - Vasum tuberculatum (Broderip) - Turbinellidae - Mollusc shell.jpeg
Shell of Vasum tuberculatum (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Turbinellidae
Subfamily: Vasinae
Genus: Vasum
Species:
V. tuberculatum
Binomial name
Vasum tuberculatum
Gabb 1873

Vasum tuberculatum is an extinct species of medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae. [1]

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Description

The height of the shell: 111 mm, its diameter 86 mm.

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species have been found in Miocene to Pliocene strata of the Dominican Republic and Venezuela. (age range: 20.43 to 3.6 Ma Ma)

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