Acrilla reticulata
Appearance
Acrilla reticulata | |
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Shell of † Acrilla reticulata (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Epitonioidea |
Family: | Epitoniidae |
Genus: | Acrilla |
Species: | †A. reticulata
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Binomial name | |
†Acrilla reticulata (SOLANDER in BRANDER, 1766)
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Synonyms | |
† Amaea (Acrilla) reticulata (Solander in Brander, 1766) |
Acrilla reticulata is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Epitoniidae, the wentletraps.[1]
Distribution
[edit]Fossils of this marine species have been found in Eocene strata in the Barton on Sea, Great Britain.
References
[edit]- Cossmann (M.), 1912 - Essais de Paléoconchologie comparée. livraison 9, p. 1-215
- Korobkov (I.A.), 1955 - Spravochnik I methodicheskoe revodstvo po tretichnym molliuskam. Briuckhonologie [= Manuel et guide des Mollusques tertiaires, Gastéropodes], p. 1-795