''Mangelia luellingensis'' 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
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the
family Mangeliidae.
[E.W. Vredenburg. Rec. Geol. Surv. India, vol. li (1921).]
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
* 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
External links
Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: ''Mangelia luellingensis ''
luellingensis
Gastropods described in 2007
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