Fusiturricula springvaleensis
Fusiturricula springvaleensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Drilliidae |
| Genus: | Fusiturricula |
| Species: | F. springvaleensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Fusiturricula springvaleensis Mansfield 1925 | |
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Description
The shell grows to a length of 44 mm, its diameter 15 mm.
Distribution
This extinct species was found in Miocene strata of Trinidad and Tobago and in Pliocene strata of Venezuela; age range: 5.332 to 2.588 Ma.
References
- W. C. Mansfield. 1925. Miocene gastropods and scaphopods from Trinidad, British West Indies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 66(22):9116-9125
- B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva. 2010. Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy. Palaeontos 19:1–221
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