Haedropleura orientalis

Haedropleura orientalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Superfamily:Conoidea
Family:Horaiclavidae
Genus:Haedropleura
Species: H. orientalis
Binomial name
Haedropleura orientalis
Vredenburg 1923
Synonyms

Bela (Haedropleura) orientalis Vredenburg 1923

Haedropleura orientalis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 33.7 mm.

Distribution

This extinct species occurs in Paleocene strata of India; age range: 58.7 to 55.8 Ma

References

  • E. Vredenburg. 1923. Indian Tertiary Gastropoda, No. 5, Fusidae, Turbinellidae, Chrysodomidae, Strepturidae, Buccinidae, Nassidae, Columbellidae, with a short diagnoses of new species by the late E. Vredenburg. Records of the Geological Survey of India 55(1):52-77
  • R. P. Kachhara, K. Bigyapati Devi, and R. L. Joghawat. 2011. Molluscan Assemblage from the Marine Palaeocene Sequence in Southwestern Kachchh, Gujarat. Journal Gological Society of India 78:81-91


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