Amaea woodi explained

Amaea woodi is a very rare extinct species of predatory sea snails, marine prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae. ^[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 12 mm and 14 mm, its diameter between 4 mm and 5 mm.

A shell significantly smaller than the typical † Clathroscala cancellata, elongated and tapering to a fine point, smooth (except for the growth lines), thin and fragile. It features 9 or 10 slightly convex whorls, adorned with fine, closely packed, longitudinal ribs and delicate transverse striations, both of which terminate abruptly at the peristome. The suture is deep. The aperture is subcircular, and the peristome is continuous. ^[2]

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species were found in Pliocene strata in the harbour of Antwerp, Belgium; it was originally found in the Coralline Crag Formation, East Anglia, Great Britain.

References

• Book: Deshayes . G. P. . Description des animaux sans vertebres decouverts dans le bassin de Paris pour servir de supplement d la description des coquilles fossiles des environs de Paris comprenant une revue generate de toutes les especes actuellement connue . 1861 . Ballière . Paris . 1–432.
• Book: Harmer . F. W. . The Pliocene mollusca of Great Britain, being supplementary to S. V. Wood's Monograph of the Crag Mollusca. Volume II. . 1920–1925 . Monographs of the PalaeontographicalSociety . London.
• Burg . W. J. van der . Over enige tot nu toe uit het middenplioceen van Nederland onbekende molluskensoorten. . Basteria . 1952 . 16 . 49–64.
• Glibert . M. . Gastropodes du Diestien, du Scaldisien et du Merxemien de la Belgique. Deuxieme note. . Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique . 1958a . 34 . 1–36.

Notes and References

1. Robert Marquet & Bernard Landau . The gastropod fauna of the Luchtbal Sand Member (Lillo Formation, Zanclean, Early Pliocene) of the Antwerp region (Belgium) . Cainozoic Research . 2006 . 5 . 1–2 . 34 . 9 October 2024.
2. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society . Palaeontographical Society (Great Britain) . 1918–1920 . 72 . 344–345 . 9 October 2024.