Dillwynella texana

Dillwynella texana
Original image of a shell of Dillwynella texana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:Trochoidea
Family:Skeneidae
Genus:Dillwynella
Species: D. texana
Binomial name
Dillwynella texana
G. Harris, 1895

Dillwynella texana is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.[1]

Description

The shell contains four, spiral, smooth and shining whorls. The body whorl is nearly smooth but showing a slight tendency to bear furrows or lines radiating from the suture. The umbilicus is small. The aperture is round.[1]

Distribution

This marine species was found as a fossil in the Lower Claiborne Eocene, Texas.

References

  1. 1 2 G. Harris, New and Otherwise Interesting Tertiary Mollusca from Texas; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 47, (1895), pp. 45-88
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