| Pleioptygma carolinense Temporal range: Pliocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Pleioptygmatidae |
| Genus: | Pleioptygma |
| Species: | † P. carolinense |
| Binomial name | |
| Pleioptygma carolinense (Conrad, 1840) | |
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Pleioptygma carolinense is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pleioptygmatidae.
Pleioptygma carolinensis is the type species of the genus Pleioptygma.
Distribution
This species is found in the Pliocene deposits of North Carolina. The type locality is Duplin County, North Carolina.
Description
The type description of Pleioptygma carolinensis originally described as Voluta carolinensis by Timothy Abbott Conrad (1840) reads as follows:
Voluta Carolinensis. — Shell subfusiform; whorls deeply channeled below the suture; superior margin of the channel carinated;
spire elevated, with prominent, rather distant acute spiral lines on the three or four superior whorls; large whorl with obscure, distant spiral lines, except towards the base, which is sulcated, and strongly
striated. Length 3 inches.
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference
- ^ Quinn J. F. Jr. (1989). "Pleioptygmatidae, a new family of mitriform gastropods (Prosobranchia: Neogastropoda)". The Nautilus 103(1): 13-19.
- ^ Conrad T. A. (1840). "New fossil shells from N. Carolina". American Journal of Science 39(2): 387-388.
- Conrad, TA (1862). "Catalogue of the Miocene Shells of the Atlantic Slope". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 14: 559–582+586. JSTOR 4059514.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Pleioptygma carolinense | |