Vasum pugnus
Vasum pugnus | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Turbinellidae |
Subfamily: | Vasinae |
Genus: | Vasum |
Species: | †V. pugnus
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Binomial name | |
†Vasum pugnus Pilsbry and Johnson, 1917
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Vasum pugnus is an extinct species of medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae. [1]
Description
Measurements of the (incomplete) shell: 71.6 mm x 35.5 mm.
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References
- 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
- Vokes, Emily H. "The age of the Baitoa Formation, Dominican Republic, using Mollusca for correlation." Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 15.4 (1979): 105-116.Error: "Q116460127" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.