Turritella vermicularis
Turritella vermicularis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turritellidae.[1]
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Fossil shell of Turritella vermicularis from Pliocene of Italy | |
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Turritella vermicularis (Brocchi, 1814) | |
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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 28โ83 millimetres (1.1โ3.3 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
- 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. 1โ16
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