Biology:Hystrivasum

Short description: Extinct genus of gastropods

Hystrivasum
Five views of a fossil shell of Hystrivasum squamosum (Hollister 1971)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda cladeHypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Turbinellidae
Subfamily:	Vasinae
Genus:	Hystrivasum Vokes, 1966

Hystrivasum is an extinct genus of medium-sized fossil predatory gastropods in the family Turbinellidae. The species in this genus are known from the Pliocene and Pleistocene deposits of Florida.

Species

Species within the genus Hystrivasum include:[1]

• Hystrivasum horridum
• Hystrivasum jacksonense
• Hystrivasum locklini
• Hystrivasum squamosum

References

• E. H. Vokes. 1966. The genus Vasum (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the new world. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 5(1):1-35

Wikidata ☰ Q5962430 entry