Mitreola (gastropod)

Mitreola is a genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]

Mitreola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Volutidae
Subfamily:
Volutinae
Tribe:
Lyriini
Genus:
Mitreola

Swainson, 1833
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Eneata
  • † Mitra (Mitreola) Swainson, 1833
  • Mitreala (misspelling)

'MItreola' also refers to a genus of plants in the Loganiaceae plant family.

Species

Species within the genus Mitreola include:[3]

  • † Mitreola brohii Merle & Pacaud & Marivaux, 2014 [4]
  • † Mitreola labratula Lamarck, 1803 (1 record from the Eocene in the United Kingdom) [5]
  • † Mitreola monodonta (Lamarck 1803) (synonym : Mitra monodonta)
  • † Mitreola salaputium T. A. Darragh 1989
Species brought into synonymy
  • † Mitreola branderi (Defrance, 1824): synonym of † Eovoluta branderi (Defrance, 1824)
  • † Mitreola chaussyensis (Cossmann, 1907): synonym of † Eovoluta branderi (Defrance, 1824)
  • † Mitreola parisiensis (Deshayes, 1832): synonym of † Eovoluta branderi (Defrance, 1824)

Description

These species were epifaunal carnivores.

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See also

References
  1. Mitreola Swainson, 1833. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 December 2010.
  2. The Paleobiology Database Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
  3. The Paleobiology Database Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Merle & Pacaud & Marivaux, Volutidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of the Lakhra Formation (Earliest Eocene, Sindh, Pakistan): systematics, biostratigraphy and paleobiogeography; Zootaxa, 3826 (1) : 101-138, fig. 1-12. , 2014
  5. GBIF : Mitreola labratula


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