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

Mangelia cryptopleura
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Mangelia
Species:
M. cryptopleura
Binomial name
Mangelia cryptopleura
J. Gardner, 1947

Description edit

The length of the shell attains 7.1 mm, its diameter 3.1 mm.

Distribution edit

This extinct marine species was found in the Alum Bluff Group, Florida, USA

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