Biology:Fusiturricula panola

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Short description: Extinct species of gastropod

Fusiturricula panola
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Fusiturricula
Species:
F. panola
Binomial name
Fusiturricula panola
Woodring, 1928

Fusiturricula panola is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Drilliidae.[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 27.2 mm, its diameter 8.5 mm.

Distribution

This marine species has been found as a fossil in Pliocene strata of the Bowden Formation (Jamaica); age range:3.6 to 2.588 Ma [2]

References

  1. Fossilworks: Fusiturricula panola
  2. A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.
  • W. P. Woodring. 1928. Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results . Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies.

Wikidata ☰ Q28431949 entry