Mangelia coplicata

Mangelia coplicata
	Shell of † Mangelia coplicata (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Caenogastropoda
Clade:	Hypsogastropoda
Clade:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Mangelia
Species:	M. coplicata
Binomial name
	Mangelia coplicata; A. Pezant, 1905
Synonyms
	† Fusus plicatus Lamarck, 1803; † Mangelia (Mangiliella) coplicata (Pezant, 1905)Small text; † Mangilia capillacea Cossmann, 1902; † Mangilia coplicata Pezant, 1905; † Mangilia lamarcki Pezant, 1905; † Mangilia parisiensis Cossmann, 1889; † Pleurotoma plicata Lamarck, 1804; † Pleurotoma pseudoharpula d’Orbigny, 1850 (original description);

Mangelia coplicata is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 9 mm.

This extinct marine species was found in Eocene strata in the Paris Basin, France.

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Pezant A. 1905. Des doubles emplois en nomenclature. La Feuille des jeunes Naturalistes 414: 88-89.
Cossmann M. 1907. Catalogue illustré des coquilles fossiles de l’Éocène des environs de Paris. Appendice n° 4. Annales de la Société royale zoologique et malacologique de Belgique 41: 182-286.

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