Vasum tuberculatum is an extinct species of medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae. [1]

Vasum tuberculatum
Shell of Vasum tuberculatum (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Turbinellidae
Subfamily: Vasinae
Genus: Vasum
Species:
V. tuberculatum
Binomial name
Vasum tuberculatum
Gabb 1873

Description

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The height of the shell: 111 mm, its diameter 86 mm.

Distribution

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Fossils of this marine species have been found in Miocene to Pliocene strata of the Dominican Republic and Venezuela. (age range: 20.43 to 3.6 Ma Ma)

References

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  • 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
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