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Fusiturricula springvaleensis

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Extinct species of gastropod

Fusiturricula springvaleensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Fusiturricula
Species: F. springvaleensis
Binomial name
Fusiturricula springvaleensis
Mansfield 1925
Synonyms
  • Clavatula (Fusiturricula) bajanensis Nowell-Usticke 1969
  • Clavatula (Fusiturricula) pagodula Rustch 1934
  • Fusiturricula altenai Macsotay and Campos 2001
  • Fusuturricula (Kenfastia) bajanensis Nowell-Usticke 1969

Fusiturricula springvaleensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.

Description

The shell grows to a length of 44 mm, its diameter 15 mm.

This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (October 2011)

Distribution

This extinct species was found in Miocene strata of Trinidad and Tobago and in Pliocene strata of Venezuela; age range: 5.332 to 2.588 Ma.

References

  1. Fossilworks: Fusiturricula springvaleensis
  • W. C. Mansfield. 1925. Miocene gastropods and scaphopods from Trinidad, British West Indies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 66(22):9116-9125
  • B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva. 2010. Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy. Palaeontos 19:1–221
Taxon identifiers
Fusiturricula springvaleensis


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