Voluta hamiltonensis

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Voluta hamiltonensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Voluta hamiltonensis Pritchard, 1898 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1652576 on 2023-06-29

Description

Specimens of the species have a fusiform shell, axial sculpture, and non-extended outer lip, with flattened whorls on its spire.Thomson, Kirstie Rae. (September 2013). [https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/17953/1/ThomsonK_Sept_2013_17953.pdf Evolutionary patterns and consequences of developmental mode in Cenozoic gastropods from southeastern Australia] [doctoral dissertation, University of Liverpool]. A smooth, relatively spherical protoconch is seen at the end of the spire.{{Cite journal |last=Darragh |first=T. A. |date=30 November 1988 |title=Tertiary Volutidae of South-Eastern Australia |url=https://archive.org/details/MemoirsMuseumVi49Muse/page/247/mode/1up |journal=Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria |volume=49 |issue=2 |pages=248|doi=10.24199/j.mmv.1988.49.12 }}

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species were found in Tertiary strata in Victoria, Australia.

References

G.B. Pritchard | J.H. Gatliff, Catalogue of the marine shells of Victoria; Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria, 1898 part II

Category:Gastropods described in 1898

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