''Turris vermicularis'' is an extinct

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of ...

of sea snail, a marine gastropod

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in the

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Turridae Turridae is a taxonomic family name for a number of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. MolluscaBase (2018). Turridae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 (1838). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Specie ...

, the turrids.

Description

Distribution

This extinct marine species was found in

Miocene The Miocene ( ) is the first 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 means "less recent" ...

strata off

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. Th ...

, Italy and off

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, Hungary.

References

* de Grateloup, J. P. S. "Description d'un genre nouveau de coquille, appele Neritopsis." Actes de la Société linnéenne de Bordeaux 5 (1832): 125–131.

External links

Marta Zunino $ Giulio Pavia, Lower to middle Miocene mollusc assemblages from the Torino hills (NW Italy): Synthesis of new data and chronostratigraphical arrangement; Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 115(3):349-370 (2009)

Auckland Museum: collection

MNHN, Paris: Pleurotoma vermicularis
vermicularis Gastropods described in 1832 {{paleo-gastropod-stub