Mangelia paulae

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

Mangelia paulae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Mangelia
Species:
M. paulae
Binomial name
Mangelia paulae
O. Böttger, 1901
Synonyms
  • Cythara (Mangelia) paulae (Böttger, 1901)
  • Mangilia paulae O. Böttger, 1901

Description

The length of the shell attains 5 mm, its diameter 1.9 mm.

Distribution

This extinct marine species was found in Middle Miocene strata in Poland.

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References

  1. Boettger, Oskar. Zur Kenntnis der Fauna der mittelmiocänen Schichten von Kostej im Krassó-Szörényer Komitat; Verhandlungen und Mitteilungen des siebenbürgischen Vereins für Naturwissenschaften zu Hermannstadt; 51, 1-199; 1901
  • Zilch A. 1935. Nachtrag zur Typus-Bestimmung der Fauna des Mittel-Miocäns von Kostej (Banat). Senckenbergiana, 17 (5/6), 226-228.
  • Bałuk, Wacław. "Middle Miocene (Badenian) Gastropods from Korytnica, Poland; Part IV–Turridae." Acta Geologica Polonica 53.1 (2003): 29-78.
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