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
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: 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.

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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