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 | |
| 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 | |
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† 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
- Worldwide Moolusc Species Data Base: Miraclathurella vittata
- Carnegie Institution of Washington; Washington, Carnegie Institution of (1928). Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington.
- 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.
- Woodring, W.P. (1928). "Miocene mollusks from Bowden, Jamaica. 2. Gastropods and discussion of results". Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication. 385 (VII): 158. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
- 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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