''Miraclathurella eucharis'' 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 Pseudomelatomidae
Pseudomelatomidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropods included in the superfamily Conoidea (previously Conacea) and part of the Neogastropoda ( Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
In 1995 Kantor elevated the subfamily Pseudomelatomina ...
, the turrids and allies.
Worldwide Moolusc Species Data Base: Miraclathurella eucharis
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Description
Distribution
Fossils of this species were found in Miocene strata in Panama; age range: 11.608 to 7.246 Ma.
References
* Woodring, Wendell Phillips. ''Geology and paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama; description of Tertiary mollusks (Gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae)''. No. 306-D. 1970.
* B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva. 2010. ''Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy''. Palaeontos 19:1-221
External links
Fossilworks: ''Miraclathurella eucharis''
eucharis
Gastropods described in 1928
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