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Tenaturris isiola

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Extinct species of gastropod

Tenaturris isiola
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Tenaturris
Species: T. isiola
Binomial name
Tenaturris isiola
Woodring 1928

Tenaturris isiola is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.

Description

The length of the shell attains 9.1 mm, its diameter 3.9 mm.

(Original description) The stout shell is medium-sized. The stout protoconch is cylindrical and consists of about two smooth whorls. The aperture is relatively wide.

The sculpture consists of narrow axial ribs (16 or 17 on penultimate whorl), varicose here and there on the body whorl, weakly overridden by fine spiral threads. Microscopic frosted spirals visible in interspaces.

Distribution

This extinct marine species can be found in Pliocene strata of the Bowden Formation, Jamaica; age range: 3.6 to 2.588 Ma

References

  1. Fossilworks: † Tenaturris isiola Woodring 1928
  2. 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 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • 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 Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions
Taxon identifiers
Tenaturris isiola
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