Eopleurotoma Explained

Eopleurotoma is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turridae, the turrids.^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Eopleurotoma include:

• † Eopleurotoma bella Tracey & Craig, 2019
• † Eopleurotoma bicincta Tracey & Craig, 2019
• † Eopleurotoma boxleyi Tracey & Craig, 2019
• † Eopleurotoma christinae Tracey & Craig, 2019
• † Eopleurotoma distanticosta (Cossmann & Pissarro, 1900)
• † Eopleurotoma fluctuosa (Deshayes, 1865)
• † Eopleurotoma fresvillensis (Cossmann & Pissarro, 1900)
• † Eopleurotoma hastula Tracey & Craig, 2019
• † Eopleurotoma longicauda Brébion, 1992
• † Eopleurotoma morelleti J. K. Tucker & Le Renard, 1993†
• † Eopleurotoma multinoda (Lamarck, 1804)
• † Eopleurotoma palmeri Le Renard, 1994
• † Eopleurotoma procera (Cossmann & Pissarro, 1900)
• † Eopleurotoma scitula Tracey & Craig, 2019
• † Eopleurotoma spreta (Deshayes, 1865)
• † Eopleurotoma undata (Lamarck, 1804)
• † Eopleurotoma vauvillensis Tracey & Craig, 2019

References

• Tracey S., Craig B. & Gain O. (2019). Turridae (Gastropoda, Conoidea) from the late Lutetian Eocene of the Cotentin, NW France: endemism through loss of planktotrophy?. Carnets de Voyages Paléontologiques dans le Bassin Anglo-Parisien. 5: 101-140.

External links

• Cossmann M. (1889). Catalogue illustré des coquilles fossiles de l'Éocène des environs de Paris. Annales de la Société Royale Malacologique de Belgique. 24: 3-381, 12 pls.
• MNHN, Paris: holotype of Eopleurotoma palmeri de Boury, 1899

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Eopleurotoma Cossmann, 1889 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1027453 on 2020-11-03