Vaughanites leptus
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| authority = Woodring, 1928
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Vaughanites leptus is an extinct species of marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramimitridae.MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Vaughanites leptus Woodring, 1928 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1499803 on 2023-01-29
Description
Length 17.9 mm.; diameter 4.7 mm. (holotype, apex broken).
(Original description) the outline, nucleus, and aperture as described under the genus. The sculpture consists of an open lattice-work of spiral and axial cords. Five spirals, of which the third from the suture is strongest, lie on penultimate whorl. Spirals overriding axials, but slightly swollen at intersections. Axials bent at strong spiral marking apex of anal notch.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59220479 Woodring, W. P. (1928). Miocene mollusks from Bowden, Jamaica. 2. Gastropods and discussion of results. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication. 385: vii + 564 pp., 40 pls]
Distribution
References
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- J. A. Todd. 2001. Systematic list of gastropods in the Panama Paleontology Project collections
External links
- [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=107582 Fossilworks: Vaughanites leptus]
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Category:Gastropods described in 1928
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