Mitreola (gastropod) explained

Mitreola is a genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae, the volutes.

Species

Species within the genus Mitreola include:^[1]

• † Mitreola brohii Merle & Pacaud & Marivaux, 2014 ^[2]
• † Mitreola labratula Lamarck, 1803 (1 record from the Eocene in the United Kingdom) ^[3]
• † Mitreola monodonta (Lamarck 1803) (synonym : Mitra monodonta)
• † Mitreola salaputium T. A. Darragh 1989

Species brought into synonymy:

• † Mitreola branderi (Defrance, 1824): synonym of † Eovoluta branderi (Defrance, 1824)
• † Mitreola chaussyensis (Cossmann, 1907): synonym of † Eovoluta branderi (Defrance, 1824)
• † Mitreola parisiensis (Deshayes, 1832): synonym of † Eovoluta branderi (Defrance, 1824)

Description

These species were epifaunal carnivores.

See also

• Mitreola (plant)

External links

• Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 281

Notes and References

1. http://paleodb.geology.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayTaxonomicNamesAndOpinions&reference_no=18298 The Paleobiology Database
2. Merle & Pacaud & Marivaux, Volutidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of the Lakhra Formation (Earliest Eocene, Sindh, Pakistan): systematics, biostratigraphy and paleobiogeography; Zootaxa, 3826 (1) : 101-138, fig. 1-12., 2014
3. http://data.gbif.org/species/16434358 GBIF : Mitreola labratula