Mitreola (gastropod)
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| Genus: | Mitreola Swainson, 1833
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Mitreola is a genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]
'MItreola' also refers to a genus of plants in the Loganiaceae plant family.
Species
Species within the genus Mitreola include:[3]
- † Mitreola labratula Lamarck, 1803 (1 record from the Eocene in the United Kingdom) [4]
- † Mitreola monodonta (Lamarck 1803) (synonym : Mitra monodonta)
- † Mitreola salaputium T. A. Darragh 1989
Description
These species were epifaunal carnivores.
References
- ^ a b Mitreola Swainson, 1833. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 December 2010.
- ^ The Paleobiology Database Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Paleobiology Database Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ GBIF : Mitreola labratula
- Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 281