Vasum aedificatum
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Vasum aedificatum is an extinct species of medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae. [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=243198 Fossilworks: Vasum aedificatum]
Description
V. aedificatum is carnivorous. Measurements of the shell are 62.6 mm x 33.3 mm.
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Distribution
Fossils of this marine species have been found in Miocene to Pliocene strata of the Dominican Republic. (age range: 7.246 to 5.332 Ma)
References
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- E. H. Vokes. 1998. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 18. The Superfamily Volutacea (in part) (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology 113(354):1-54
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Category:Gastropods described in 1876
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