Turritella vermicularis

Turritella vermicularis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turritellidae.[1]

Turritella vermicularis
Fossil shell of Turritella vermicularis from Pliocene of Italy
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:
Cerithioidea
Family:
Turritellidae
Subfamily:
Turritellinae
Genus:
Turritella
Species:
T. vermicularis
Binomial name
Turritella vermicularis
(Brocchi, 1814)
Fossil shells of Turritella vermicularis

These sea snails lived from the Miocene to the Pliocene epoch, approximately from 37.2 to 2.588 million years ago.[2]

Description

Shells of Turritella vermicularis can reach a size of 28–83 millimetres (1.1–3.3 in).[3]

Distribution

Fossils have been found in the Pliocene sediments in Italy and Spain, in the Miocene of Austria, Italy and Romania and in the Eocene of Namibia.[2]

References
  1. WoRMS
  2. Fossilworks
  3. International Fossil Shell Museum
  • Brocchi, G. B. (1814) Conchiologia fossile subapennina con osservazioni geologiche sugli Apennini e sul suolo adiacente. Milano Vol. I: pp. LXXX + 56 + 240; Vol. II, p. 241-712, pl. 1–16


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