Obornella
| Obornella | |
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| Five views of a fossil shell of Obornella granulata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Pleurotomarioidea |
| Family: | Pleurotomariidae |
| Genus: | Obornella Cox, 1959 |
Obornella is a genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pleurotomariidae, the slit snails, (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Species
Species within the genus Obornella include:
References
- Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 30(2):207-212. DOI:10.1016/j.jseaes.2006.07.016
- Paleobiology database info
- M. G. Harasewych and S. Kiel. 2007. Upper Jurassic Pleurotomariidae (Gastropoda) from southwestern Madagascar. The Nautilus 121(2):76-89
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