''Admetula faksensis'' is an extinct
species
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of
sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
, a marine
gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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in the
family
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Cancellariidae
Cancellariidae, common name the nutmeg snails or nutmeg shells, are a family (biology), family of small to medium-large sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda. Some of the shells of the species in this ...
, also referred to as the nutmeg snails.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Admetula faksensis Schnetler & Petit, 2006 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1498445 on 2024-05-04]
Distribution
Fossils have been found in
Early Paleocene
The Danian is the oldest age (geology), age or lowest stage (stratigraphy), stage of the Paleocene Epoch or series (stratigraphy), Series, of the Paleogene Period or system (stratigraphy), System, and of the Cenozoic Era or Erathem. The beginnin ...
strata in
Denmark
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.
References
* Schnetler, K. I., Petit, R. E. (2006). Revision of the gastropod family Cancellariidae from the Danian (Early Paleocene) of Fakse, Denmark. Cainozoic Research. 4(1–2), 97–108.
faksensis
Gastropods described in 2006
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