Carinodrillia zooki

Carinodrillia zooki is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]

Carinodrillia zooki
Original image of a shell of Carinodrillia zooki
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Carinodrillia
Species:
C. zooki
Binomial name
Carinodrillia zooki
(Brown and Pilsbry 1911)
Synonyms
  • Drillia (Crassispira) zooki (Brown and Pilsbry 1911)
  • Drillia zooki Brown and Pilsbry 1911 (original combination)

Description

The length of the shell attains 20.5 mm, its diameter 8.5 mm.

(Original description) This species is very similar to † Carinodrillia fusiformis (Gabb, 1873), but differs as follows: the anterior canal is mich shorter. There is no cord at the lower edge of the sutural fasciole, above the supraperipheral cord. There are eleven somewhat protractive longitudinal folds on the body whorl, which are narrower than in C. fusilformis . In other respects, the two species seem to be substantially alike.[2]

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species were found in Miocene strata of the Gatun Formation in Panama.

References
  1. "Fossilworks: Carinodrillia zooki". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  2. A. P. Brown and H. A. Pilsbry. 1911. Fauna of the Gatun Formation, Isthmus of Panama. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 63(2):336–373 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • 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 Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions
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