Miraclathurella gracilis

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

Miraclathurella gracilis
Shell of † Miraclathurella gracilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Miraclathurella
Species:
M. gracilis
Binomial name
Miraclathurella gracilis
(Gabb, 1866)
Synonyms
  • Clathurella gracilis (Gabb, 1866)
  • Defrancia gracilis Gabb, 1866

Description

The length of the shell attains 28.5 mm, its diameter 7.5 mm.

On the penult whorl there are sixteen axial ribs, crossed by five or six narrow spiral cords. On the body whorl there are about eighteen narrow, spiral cords, which are slightly enlarged where they cross the ribs and widely spaced in the peripheral region and above. Between them are many minute spirals and rather sharp axial striae.[2]

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species were found in Tertiary strata of Santo Domingo.

References

  • Gabb, William M. "Cretaceous and Tertiary fossils." (1869): 1-299.
  • B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva. 2010. Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy. Palaeontos 19:1-221
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