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 
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| 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