Mangelia hesperia
| Mangelia hesperia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Mangelia |
| Species: | M. hesperia
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| Binomial name | |
| Mangelia hesperia H.A. Pilsbry & A.A. Olsson, 1941
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Mangelia hesperia is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
Description
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Distribution
[edit]This extinct marine species was found in Pliocene strata of the Canoa Formation in Ecuador; age range: 5.332 to 2.588 Ma
References
[edit]- H. A. Pilsbry and A.A. Olsson. 1941. A Pliocene fauna from Western Ecuador. Proceedings of the Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 93:1-79