Mangelia luellingensis

Mangelia luellingensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Mangelia luellingensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Mangelia
Species:
M. luellingensis
Binomial name
Mangelia luellingensis
Wienrich and Janssen 2007

Description

The length of the shell attains 4.5 mm, its diameter 1.9 mm.

Distribution

This extinct marine species was found in Miocene strata of Germany; age range: 15.97 to 11.608 Ma

References

  1. E.W. Vredenburg. Rec. Geol. Surv. India, vol. li (1921).
  • G. Wienrich and R. Janssen. 2007. Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein). Band 4 Gastropoda ab Mitridae. Backhuys Publishers BV Leiden 4:643-954
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