Gemmula birmanica

Gemmula birmanica is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]

Gemmula birmanica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Turridae
Genus: Gemmula
Species:
G. birmanica
Binomial name
Gemmula birmanica
(Vredenburg, 1921)
Synonyms
  • Pleurotoma (Gemmula) birmanica Vredenburg 1921
  • Turris (Gemmula) birmanica (Vredenburg 1921)

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species have been found in Miocene strata of India and Myanmar; in Quaternary strtata of Indonesia; age range: 23.03 to 0.781 Ma

References

  • E. Vredenburg. 1921. Comparative diagnoses of Pleurotomidae from the Tertiary formations of Burma. Records of the Geological Survey of India 53:83-129
  • P. N. Mukerjee. 1939. Fossil fauna from the Tertiary of Garo Hills, Assam. Palaeontologia Indica 28(1):1-101


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