''Admetula serrata'' is an extinct

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

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

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mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

in the

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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 serrata (Bronn, 1831) †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1492675 on 2024-05-05

Distribution

Fossils have been found in

Middle Miocene The Middle Miocene is a sub-epoch of the Miocene epoch (geology), epoch made up of two Stage (stratigraphy), stages: the Langhian and Serravallian stages. The Middle Miocene is preceded by the Early Miocene. The sub-epoch lasted from 15.97 ± 0. ...

strata in Paratethys Sea.

References

External links

Bronn, H. G. (1831). Italiens Tertiär-Gebilde und deren organische Einschlüsse. Karl Groos, Heidelberg, xii + 176 pp., 1 pl.

Boettger, O. (1902). Zur Kenntnis der Fauna der Mittelmiocänen Schichten von Kostej im Krassó-Szörénver Komitat. (Mit einem Situationsplan der Fundpunkte). II. Verhandlungen und Mitteilungen des Siebenbürgischen Vereins für Naturwissenschaften zu Hermannstadt. [1901
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Harzhauser, M. & Landau, B. (2012). A revision of the Neogene cancellariid gastropods of the Paratethys Sea. Zootaxa. 3472(1): 1-71.
serrata Gastropods described in 1831 {{paleo-gastropod-stub