Mangelia luellingensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
Mangelia luellingensis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Mangeliidae |
Genus: | Mangelia |
Species: | M. luellingensis
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Binomial name | |
Mangelia luellingensis Wienrich and Janssen 2007
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 4.5 mm, its diameter 1.9 mm.
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Distribution
editThis extinct marine species was found in Miocene strata of Germany; age range: 15.97 to 11.608 Ma
References
edit- ^ E.W. Vredenburg. Rec. Geol. Surv. India, vol. li (1921).
- G. Wienrich and R. Janssen. 2007. Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein). Band 4 Gastropoda ab Mitridae. Backhuys Publishers BV Leiden 4:643-954