Vasum tuberculatum
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| authority = Gabb 1873
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Vasum tuberculatum 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=243196 Fossilworks: Vasum tuberculatum]
Description
The height of the shell: 111 mm, its diameter 86 mm.
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Distribution
Fossils of this marine species have been found in Miocene to Pliocene strata of the Dominican Republic and Venezuela. (age range: 20.43 to 3.6 Ma 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
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20180418024618id_/https://journals.tulane.edu/index.php/tsgp/article/viewFile/758/686 Vokes, Emily H. "The age of the Baitoa Formation, Dominican Republic, using Mollusca for correlation." Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 15.4 (1979): 105-116.]
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Category:Gastropods described in 1873
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