Fusiturricula panola is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Drilliidae.[1]
Fusiturricula panola | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Drilliidae |
Genus: | Fusiturricula |
Species: | F. panola
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Binomial name | |
Fusiturricula panola Woodring, 1928
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 27.2 mm, its diameter 8.5 mm.
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Distribution
editThis marine species has been found as a fossil in Pliocene strata of the Bowden Formation (Jamaica); age range:3.6 to 2.588 Ma [2]
References
edit- ^ Fossilworks: Fusiturricula panola
- ^ 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 Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.
- 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.