Vasum tuberculatum is an extinct species of medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae. [1]
| Vasum tuberculatum | |
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| Shell of Vasum tuberculatum (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Turbinellidae |
| Subfamily: | Vasinae |
| Genus: | Vasum |
| Species: | †V. tuberculatum
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| Binomial name | |
| †Vasum tuberculatum Gabb 1873
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Description
editThe height of the shell: 111 mm, its diameter 86 mm.
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Distribution
editFossils of this marine species have been found in Miocene to Pliocene strata of the Dominican Republic and Venezuela. (age range: 20.43 to 3.6 Ma Ma)
References
edit- E. H. Vokes. 1998. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 18. The Superfamily Volutacea (in part) (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology 113(354):1-54
External links
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