Pleioptygma carolinense
| Pleioptygma carolinense Temporal range: Pliocene[1] | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Pleioptygmatidae |
| Genus: | Pleioptygma |
| Species: | † P. carolinense |
| Binomial name | |
| Pleioptygma carolinense (Conrad, 1840)[2] | |
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Pleioptygma carolinense[1] is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pleioptygmatidae.
Pleioptygma carolinensis is the type species of the genus Pleioptygma.[1]
Distribution
This species is found in the Pliocene deposits of North Carolina.[2] The type locality is Duplin County, North Carolina.[2]
Description
The type description of Pleioptygma carolinensis originally described as Voluta carolinensis by Timothy Abbott Conrad (1840)[2] reads as follows:
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Voluta Carolinensis. — Shell subfusiform; whorls deeply channeled below the suture; superior margin of the channel carinated; spire elevated, with prominent, rather distant acute spiral lines on the three or four superior whorls; large whorl with obscure, distant spiral lines, except towards the base, which is sulcated, and strongly striated. Length 3 inches. |
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References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference [2]
- 1 2 3 Quinn J. F. Jr. (1989). "Pleioptygmatidae, a new family of mitriform gastropods (Prosobranchia: Neogastropoda)". The Nautilus 103(1): 13-19.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Conrad T. A. (1840). "New fossil shells from N. Carolina". American Journal of Science 39(2): 387-388.
- Conrad, TA (1862). "Catalogue of the Miocene Shells of the Atlantic Slope". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 14: 559–582+586. JSTOR 4059514.