Mangelia heptapleura

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

Mangelia heptapleura
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Mangelia
Species:
M. heptapleura
Binomial name
Mangelia heptapleura
H.A. Pilsbry & A.A. Olsson, 1941

Description

Distribution

This extinct marine species was found in Pliocene strata of the Canoa Formation in Ecuador; age range: 5.332 to 2.588 Ma

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References

  • H. A. Pilsbry and A.A. Olsson. 1941. A Pliocene fauna from Western Ecuador. Proceedings of the Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 93:1-79


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