Miraclathurella vittata
{{Short description|Extinct species of gastropod}}
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| taxon = Miraclathurella vittata
| image = Miraclathurella-vittata-Woodring-1928.png
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| authority = (Woodring 1928)
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| synonyms = † Euclathurella (Miraclathurella) entemma Woodring, 1928
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Miraclathurella vittata is an extinct Pliocene species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/HtmSpecies/5346000698.htm Worldwide Moolusc Species Data Base: Miraclathurella vittata] The species was discovered by Wendell Woodring in 1928.{{Cite book |last1=Carnegie Institution of Washington |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/275749 |title=Carnegie Institution of Washington publication |last2=Washington |first2=Carnegie Institution of |date=1928 |publisher=Carnegie Institution of Washington |location=Washington}}
Description
The length of the shell attains 12 mm, its diameter 4.1 mm. Woodring described the genus Miraclathurella and identified two species. M. vittata was differentiated from M. entemna by a "protoconch of about three whorls, about the last half whorl bearing an anterior keel, behind which lie axial riblets.”{{Cite journal |last=Garcia |first=Emilio |date=2016 |title=The genera Miraclathurella Woodring, 1928 (Gastropoda:Pseudomelatomidae) and Darrylia Garcı´a, 2008 (Gastropoda:?Horaiclavidae), with two proposed new combinations for Darrylia |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/274744 |journal=The Nautilus |volume=130 |issue=2 |pages=79–81}}
Distribution
Fossils of this species were found in Miocene strata in the Bowden Formation, Jamaica; age range: 3.6 to 2.588 Ma.
References
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- {{cite journal |last1=Woodring |first1=W.P. |title=Miocene mollusks from Bowden, Jamaica. 2. Gastropods and discussion of results. |journal=Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication |date=1928 |volume=385 |issue=VII |page=158 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59220479 |access-date=2024-06-26}}
- B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva. 2010. Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy. Palaeontos 19:1-221
External links
- [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=107535 Fossilworks: Miraclathurella vittata]
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Category:Gastropods described in 1928
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