Fusiturricula springvaleensis

Fusiturricula springvaleensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]

Fusiturricula springvaleensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Fusiturricula
Species:
F. springvaleensis
Binomial name
Fusiturricula springvaleensis
Mansfield 1925
Synonyms
  • Clavatula (Fusiturricula) bajanensis Nowell-Usticke 1969
  • Clavatula (Fusiturricula) pagodula Rustch 1934
  • Fusiturricula altenai Macsotay and Campos 2001
  • Fusuturricula (Kenfastia) bajanensis Nowell-Usticke 1969

Description

The shell grows to a length of 44 mm, its diameter 15 mm.

Distribution

This extinct species was found in Miocene strata of Trinidad and Tobago and in Pliocene strata of Venezuela; age range: 5.332 to 2.588 Ma.

References
  1. Fossilworks: Fusiturricula springvaleensis
  • W. C. Mansfield. 1925. Miocene gastropods and scaphopods from Trinidad, British West Indies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 66(22):9116-9125
  • B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva. 2010. Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy. Palaeontos 19:1–221
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