Tenaturris isiola is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
| Tenaturris isiola | |
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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: | Tenaturris |
| Species: | †T. isiola
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| Binomial name | |
| †Tenaturris isiola Woodring 1928
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 9.1 mm, its diameter 3.9 mm.
(Original description) The stout shell is medium-sized. The stout protoconch is cylindrical and consists of about two smooth whorls. The aperture is relatively wide.
The sculpture consists of narrow axial ribs (16 or 17 on penultimate whorl), varicose here and there on the body whorl, weakly overridden by fine spiral threads. Microscopic frosted spirals visible in interspaces. [2]
Distribution
editThis extinct marine species can be found in Pliocene strata of the Bowden Formation, Jamaica; age range: 3.6 to 2.588 Ma
References
edit- ^ Fossilworks: † Tenaturris isiola Woodring 1928
- ^ W. P. Woodring. 1928. Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results . Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies
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- A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions