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

Mangelia perforata
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. perforata
Binomial name
Mangelia perforata
(Brusina, 1877)
Synonyms
  • Cythara (Mangelia) detmersiana (Böttger, 1901)
  • Mangelia perforata Brusina, 1931
  • Mangilia detmersiana Böttger, 1901
  • Mangilia monterosati Bellardi, 1877
  • Mangilia perforata (Brusina, 1877)
  • Pleurotoma caerulans Philippi, 1856 (original description)
  • Raphitoma (Mangilia) perforata Brusina, 1877

Description

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The length of the shell attains 6.8 mm, its diameter 2.8 mm.

Distribution

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This extinct marine species was found in the Middle Miocene strata in Poland and from Kostej in Transylvania.

References

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  1. ^ Bałuk, Wacław. "Middle Miocene (Badenian) Gastropods from Korytnica, Poland; Part IV–Turridae." Acta Geologica Polonica 53.1 (2003): 29-78.
  • Bellardi 1877. I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria, Parte I, pp. 1–245, parte II, pp. 1–364. Torino.
  • Böttger, O. 1896, 1901, 1906, 1907. Zur Kentnis der Fauna der mittelmiocänen Schichten von Kostej im Krassó-Szörenyer Komitat. Verhandlungen und Mitteilungen des siebenbürgischen Vereins für aturwissenschaften zu Hermannstadt, 46, 49-66; 51, 1-199; 54, 1-99; 55, 101-217.
  • Brusina, S. 1877. Fragmenta Vindobonesia. Journal de Conchyliologie, ser. 3, 17, 368-391.
  • Bałuk, Wacław. "Middle Miocene (Badenian) Gastropods from Korytnica, Poland; Part IV–Turridae." Acta Geologica Polonica 53.1 (2003): 29-78.