Euryentmema cigclis is an extinct species of sea snails, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
Euryentmema cigclis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Mangeliidae |
Genus: | Euryentmema |
Species: | E. cigclis
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Binomial name | |
Euryentmema cigclis W.P. Woodring, 1928
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 9.3 mm, its diameter 3.9 mm.
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Distribution
editThis extinct marine species was found in Pliocene strata in the Bowden Formation, Jamaica; age range: 3.6 to 2.588 Ma.
References
edit- ^ W. P. Woodring. 1928. Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results . Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies
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