Miraclathurella vittata

Miraclathurella vittata is an extinct Pliocene species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1] The species was discovered by Wendell Woodring in 1928.[2]

Miraclathurella vittata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Miraclathurella
Species:
M. vittata
Binomial name
Miraclathurella vittata
(Woodring 1928)
Synonyms

† Euclathurella (Miraclathurella) entemma Woodring, 1928

Description

The length of the shell attains 12 mm, its diameter 4.1 mm.[2] Woodring described the genus Miraclathurella and identified two species. M. vittata was differentiated from M. entemna by a "protoconch of about three whorls, about the last half whorl bearing an anterior keel, behind which lie axial riblets.”[3]

Distribution

Fossils of this species were found in Miocene strata in the Bowden Formation, Jamaica; age range: 3.6 to 2.588 Ma.

References
  1. Worldwide Moolusc Species Data Base: Miraclathurella vittata
  2. Carnegie Institution of Washington; Washington, Carnegie Institution of (1928). Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington.
  3. Garcia, Emilio (2016). "The genera Miraclathurella Woodring, 1928 (Gastropoda:Pseudomelatomidae) and Darrylia Garcı´a, 2008 (Gastropoda:?Horaiclavidae), with two proposed new combinations for Darrylia". The Nautilus. 130 (2): 79–81.
  • W. P. Woodring. 1928. Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results. Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies.
  • 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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