Miraclathurella vittata explained

Miraclathurella vittata is an extinct Pliocene species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.^[1] The species was discovered by Wendell Woodring in 1928.^[2]

Description

The length of the shell attains 12 mm, its diameter 4.1 mm. Woodring described the genus Miraclathurella and identified two species. M. vittata was differentiated from M. entemna by a "protoconch of about three whorls, about the last half whorl bearing an anterior keel, behind which lie axial riblets.”^[3]

Distribution

Fossils of this species were found in Miocene strata in the Bowden Formation, Jamaica; age range: 3.6 to 2.588 Ma.

References

• Woodring . W.P. . Miocene mollusks from Bowden, Jamaica. 2. Gastropods and discussion of results. . Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication . 1928 . 385 . VII . 158 . 2024-06-26.
• B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva. 2010. Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy. Palaeontos 19:1-221

External links

• Fossilworks: Miraclathurella vittata

Notes and References

1. http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/HtmSpecies/5346000698.htm Worldwide Moolusc Species Data Base: Miraclathurella vittata
2. Book: Carnegie Institution of Washington . Carnegie Institution of Washington publication . Washington . Carnegie Institution of . 1928 . Carnegie Institution of Washington . Washington.
3. Garcia . Emilio . 2016 . The genera Miraclathurella Woodring, 1928 (Gastropoda:Pseudomelatomidae) and Darrylia Garcı´a, 2008 (Gastropoda:?Horaiclavidae), with two proposed new combinations for Darrylia . The Nautilus . 130 . 2 . 79–81.