Obornella

Obornella
Five views of a fossil shell of Obornella granulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:	Pleurotomarioidea
Family:	Pleurotomariidae
Genus:	Obornella Cox, 1959

Obornella is a genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pleurotomariidae, the slit snails, (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Species

Species within the genus Obornella include:

• Obornella granulata
• Obornella lakhaparensis [1]
• Orbornella plicopunctata
• Obornella thompsonorum

• 
  Obornella granulata
• 
  Obornella laevigata

References

• Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 30(2):207-212. DOI:10.1016/j.jseaes.2006.07.016
• Paleobiology database info
• M. G. Harasewych and S. Kiel. 2007. Upper Jurassic Pleurotomariidae (Gastropoda) from southwestern Madagascar. The Nautilus 121(2):76-89