Tenaturris terpna is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
| Tenaturris terpna | |
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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. terpna
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| Binomial name | |
| †Tenaturris terpna Woodring 1928
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 9.1 mm, its diameter 3.6 mm.
(Original description) The medium-sized shell is moderately stout. The protoconch is as described under the genus. The anal notch is relatively shallow.
The sculpture consists of axial ribs, weakly overridden by fine spiral threads. The axials of the first three whorls are relatively broad and far apart, those on remaining whorls narrow and more closely spaced (23 on the body whorl). Interspaces bear microscopic frosted spirals. [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 terpna 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 Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.