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    Pleurotomella insignifica

    Topic: Biology

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    Short description: Extinct species of gastropod

    Pleurotomella insignifica
    Pleurotomella insignifica 001.jpg
    Original image of a shell of †Pleurotomella insignifica
    Scientific classification edit
    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Mollusca
    Class: Gastropoda
    Subclass: Caenogastropoda
    Order: Neogastropoda
    Superfamily: Conoidea
    Family: Raphitomidae
    Genus: Pleurotomella
    Species:
    †P. insignifica
    Binomial name
    †Pleurotomella insignifica
    (Heilprin, 1879)
    Synonyms

    Pleurotoma insignifa Heilprin, 1879

    Pleurotomella insignifica is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

    Description

    (Original description) The fusiform shell shows prominent revolving lines below the middle of the whorl. The spire is elevated. The shell contains about five angular whorls. The siphonal canal is short, obliquely curved. The aperture is contracted.[2]

    Distribution

    Fossils of this marine species were found in Eocene strata in Alabama, USA.

    References

    1. ↑ MNHN, Paris: Pleurotomella insignifica
    2. ↑ Heilprin, Angelo (1879). "On Some New Eocene Fossils from the Claiborne Marine Formation of Alabama". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 31 (2): 211–216. 

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