Gemmula machapoorensis

Gemmula machapoorensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Turridae
Genus: Gemmula
Species:
G. machapoorensis
Binomial name
Gemmula machapoorensis
Maury 1925
Synonyms
  • † Drillia vaningeni machapoorensis Maury 1925
  • † Hemipleurotoma bitropis Gardner 1938
  • † Turris brassoensis Mansfield 1925

Gemmula machapoorensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 19 mm.

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species have been found in Miocene strata of Panama, Trinidad and Tobago and Florida, USA.

References

  1. ^ Fossilworks: Gemmula machapoorensis
  • W. C. Mansfield. 1925. Miocene gastropods and scaphopods from Trinidad, British West Indies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 66(22):9116-9125
  • 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 Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.


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