Mangelia coplicata

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

Mangelia coplicata
Shell of † Mangelia coplicata (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Mangelia
Species:
M. coplicata
Binomial name
Mangelia coplicata
A. Pezant, 1905
Synonyms
  • † Fusus plicatus Lamarck, 1803
  • † Mangelia (Mangiliella) coplicata (Pezant, 1905)Small text
  • † Mangilia capillacea Cossmann, 1902
  • † Mangilia coplicata Pezant, 1905
  • † Mangilia lamarcki Pezant, 1905
  • † Mangilia parisiensis Cossmann, 1889
  • † Pleurotoma plicata Lamarck, 1804
  • † Pleurotoma pseudoharpula d’Orbigny, 1850 (original description)

Description

The length of the shell attains 9 mm.

Distribution

This extinct marine species was found in Eocene strata in the Paris Basin, France.

References
  1. Worldwide Mollusk Species Data Base : Mangelia coplicata
  • Pezant A. 1905. Des doubles emplois en nomenclature. La Feuille des jeunes Naturalistes 414: 88-89.
  • Cossmann M. 1907. Catalogue illustré des coquilles fossiles de l’Éocène des environs de Paris. Appendice n° 4. Annales de la Société royale zoologique et malacologique de Belgique 41: 182-286.


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