Mangelia luellingensis

Mangelia luellingensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Superfamily:Conoidea
Family:Mangeliidae
Genus:Mangelia
Species: M. luellingensis
Binomial name
Mangelia luellingensis
Wienrich and Janssen 2007

Mangelia luellingensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 4.5 mm, its diameter 1.9 mm.

Distribution

This extinct marine species was found in Miocene strata of Germany; age range: 15.97 to 11.608 Ma

References

  1. E.W. Vredenburg. Rec. Geol. Surv. India, vol. li (1921).
  • G. Wienrich and R. Janssen. 2007. Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein). Band 4 Gastropoda ab Mitridae. Backhuys Publishers BV Leiden 4:643-954
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