Mauidrillia clavicula

Mauidrillia clavicula is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.[1]

Mauidrillia clavicula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Horaiclavidae
Genus: Mauidrillia
Species:
M. clavicula
Binomial name
Mauidrillia clavicula
A.W.B. Powell, 1942

Distribution

This extinct marine species is endemic to New Zealand and was found in Miocene strata of South Island.

References

  1. Marshall, B. (2015). Mauidrillia clavicula. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=831563 on 2017-02-08
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1942: The New Zealand Recent and fossil Mollusca of the family Turridae. Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum 2: 188 p
  • P. A. Maxwell. 1988. Late Miocene Deep-Water Mollusca from the Stillwater Mudstone at Greymouth, Westland, New Zealand: Paleoecology and Systematics. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 55
  • Maxwell, P.A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. pp. 232–254 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch


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