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Fusiturricula panola

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Fusiturricula panola
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Fusiturricula
Species:
F. panola
Binomial name
Fusiturricula panola
Woodring, 1928

Fusiturricula panola is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Drilliidae.[1]

Description

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The length of the shell attains 27.2 mm, its diameter 8.5 mm.

Distribution

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This marine species has been found as a fossil in Pliocene strata of the Bowden Formation (Jamaica); age range:3.6 to 2.588 Ma [2]

References

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  1. ^ Fossilworks: Fusiturricula panola
  2. ^ A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.
  • W. P. Woodring. 1928. Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results . Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies.