''Mangelia labratula'' is an extinct species of

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

, a marine

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mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...

in the

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Mangeliidae Mangeliidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized, predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. Bouchet, P. (2011). Mangeliidae P. Fischer, 1883. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Regis ...

.Cossmann, Maurice. Catalogue illustré des coquilles fossiles de l'eocène des environs de Paris... Vol. 4. 1889.

Description

The length of the shell attains 4 mm..

Distribution

This extinct marine species was found in

Eocene The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period (geology), Period in the modern Cenozoic Era (geology), Era. The name ''Eocene' ...

strata of the Paris Basin, France.

References

* Cossmann (M.), 1889 ''Catalogue illustré des coquilles fossiles de l'Éocène des environs de Paris (4ème fascicule).'' Annales de la Société royale Malacologique de Belgique, t. 24, p. 3-385 * Cossmann (M.) & Pissarro (G.), 1913 ''Iconographie complète des coquilles fossiles de l'Éocène des environs de Paris, t. 2'', p. pl. 46-65 * Le Renard (J.) & Pacaud (J.-M.), 1995 ''Révision des Mollusques paléogènes du Bassin de Paris. 2 - Liste des références primaires des espèces.'' Cossmanniana, t. 3, vol. 3, p. 65-132

External links

Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: ''Mangelia labratula''
{{Taxonbar, from=Q39091254 labratula Gastropods described in 1889