Vasum dominicense is an extinct species of medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae. [1]
Vasum dominicense | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Turbinellidae |
Subfamily: | Vasinae |
Genus: | Vasum |
Species: | †V. dominicense
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Binomial name | |
†Vasum dominicense Gabb 1873
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Synonyms | |
† Vasum dominicensis Gabb, 1873 |
Description
editThe height of the shell: 60.0 mm, its diameter 37.0 mm.
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Distribution
editFossils of this marine species have been found in Pliocene strata of the Dominican Republic. (age range: 5.332 to 3.6 Ma)
References
edit- E. H. Vokes. 1998. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 18. The Superfamily Volutacea (in part) (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology 113(354):1-54