Vasum gurabicum
Appearance
Vasum gurabicum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Turbinellidae |
Subfamily: | Vasinae |
Genus: | Vasum |
Species: | †V. gurabicum
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Binomial name | |
†Vasum gurabicum Maury 1917
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Vasum gurabicum (original: vasum dominicense var. gurabicum[1]) is an extinct species of medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae.[2]
Description
[edit]The height of the shell: 37 mm, its diameter 24 mm.
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Distribution
[edit]Fossils of this marine species have been found in Miocene and Pliocene strata of the Dominican Republic. (age range: 5.332 to 3.6 Ma)
References
[edit]- ^ Maury, C. J. (March–April 1917). Written at Cornell University. Bulletins of American paleontology. Vol. v.5:no.22-30 (1911-1917:Nov.-June). Ithaca, New York: Paleontological Research Institution. pp. 84(248), pl. 13(39) fig. 7. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
- ^ Fossilworks: Vasum gurabicum
- E. H. Vokes. 1998. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 18. The Superfamily Volutacea (in part) (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology 113(354):1-54