Tenaturris isiola

Tenaturris isiola is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Tenaturris isiola
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Tenaturris
Species:
T. isiola
Binomial name
Tenaturris isiola
Woodring 1928

Description

The length of the shell attains 9.1 mm, its diameter 3.9 mm.

Distribution

This extinct marine species can be found in Pliocene strata of the Bowden Formation, Jamaica; age range: 3.6 to 2.588 Ma

References

  • W. P. Woodring. 1928. Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results . Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies
  • 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 Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions


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