''Miraclathurella darwini'' is an extinct

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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 Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

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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Pseudomelatomidae Pseudomelatomidae is a family (biology), family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropods included in the superfamily Conoidea (previously Conacea) and part of the Neogastropoda (Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), Bouchet & Ro ...

, the turrids and allies.Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Miraclathurella darwini
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Description

The length of the shell is 22 mm.

Distribution

Fossils of this species were found in

Miocene The Miocene ( ) is the first epoch (geology), geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma). The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell; the name comes from the Greek words (', "less") and (', "new") and mea ...

strata in

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

References

* Philippi, Rodolfo Amando. Die tertiären und quartären Versteinerungen Chiles. FA Brockhaus, 1887 p. 266 * Shuto,T. (1992): Affinity of the Late Miocene turrid fauna of Chile . Reports of Andean Studies, Shizuhoka University, Special Vol. 4 p. 21-31 * Nielsen,S.N. (2003): Die marinen Gastropoden (exklusive Heterostropha) aus dem Miozän von Zentralchile. p. 229

External links

Taxonconcept: ''Miraclathurella darwini''
darwini Gastropods described in 1887 {{paleo-Pseudomelatomidae-stub