Mangelia hancocki

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

Mangelia hancocki
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Mangelia
Species:
M. hancocki
Binomial name
Mangelia hancocki
L.G. Hertlein & A.M. Strong, 1939

Description

The length of the shell attains 4 mm, its diameter 1.5 mm.

Distribution

This extinct marine species was found in Pleistocene strata in the Galapagos Islands and in Quaternary strata of Ecuador; age range: 5.332 to 0.012 Ma

References

  • Hertlein, Leo George, and A. M. Strong. Marine pleistocene mollusks from the Galapagos islands. 1939.


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