''Mangelia perpulchra'' is a minute 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.
[Meri Ganić, Predrag Radović, Ljupko Rundić, Katarina Bradić and Slobodan Knežević' Traces of drilling predation in the Upper Badenian (Middle Miocene) molluscs from the Rakovica stream (Belgrade); Geologia Croatica, 2016 , 69/2 , 205–212 , 2 Figs. , 5 Tabs]
Description
The length of the shell attains 11 mm.
Distribution
This extinct marine species was found in the Middle
Miocene strata of
Hungary and
Serbia.
References
Wood, Searles Valentine. A Monograph of the Crag Mollusca: With Descriptipns of Shells from the Upper Tertiaries of the British Isles. Vol. 1. Johnson, 1848
External links
perpulchra
Gastropods described in 1848
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