Zebinella varicosa explained

Zebinella varicosa is an extinct species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoinidae.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 5 mm, its diameter 2 mm.

Distribution

Fossils of this species were found in Lower Miocene strata in Central Europe.

References

• Zilch, A. (1934). Zur Fauna des Mittel-Miocäns von Kostej (Banat). Typus-Bestimmung und Tafeln zu O. Boettger's Bearbeitungen. Senckenbergiana 16:193-302. 22: pls.

External links

• oettger, O. (1907). Zur Kenntnis der Fauna der mittelmiocänen Schichten von Kostej im Krassó–Szörényer Komitat (Gasteropoden und Anneliden). III. Verhandlungen und Mitteilungen des Siebenbürgischen Vereins für Naturwissenschaften zu Hermannstadt. 55 (1905): 101-244
• Bałuk, W. (1975). Lower Tortonian gastropods from Korytnica, Poland. Part I (Ślimaki Dolnotortońskie z Korytnicy. Część 1). Palaeontologia Polonica. 32: 1-186; plates I-XXI.
• Marinespecies.org: image

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Zebinella varicosa O. Boettger, 1907 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=766534 on 2023-11-02