Pleioptygma carolinense
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Pleioptygmatidae
Genus:
Pleioptygma
Species:
† P. carolinense
Binomial name
Pleioptygma carolinense
(Conrad, 1840)[2]
Synonyms
  • Voluta carolinensis Conrad, 1840
  • Pleioptygma carolinensis

Pleioptygma carolinense[1] is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pleioptygmatidae.

Pleioptygma carolinensis is the type species of the genus Pleioptygma.[1]

Distribution

This species is found in the Pliocene deposits of North Carolina.[2] The type locality is Duplin County, North Carolina.[2]

Description

The type description of Pleioptygma carolinensis originally described as Voluta carolinensis by Timothy Abbott Conrad (1840)[2] reads as follows:

Voluta Carolinensis. — Shell subfusiform; whorls deeply channeled below the suture; superior margin of the channel carinated;

spire elevated, with prominent, rather distant acute spiral lines on the three or four superior whorls; large whorl with obscure, distant spiral lines, except towards the base, which is sulcated, and strongly

striated. Length 3 inches.

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference [2]

  1. 1 2 3 Quinn J. F. Jr. (1989). "Pleioptygmatidae, a new family of mitriform gastropods (Prosobranchia: Neogastropoda)". The Nautilus 103(1): 13-19.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Conrad T. A. (1840). "New fossil shells from N. Carolina". American Journal of Science 39(2): 387-388.
  • Conrad, TA (1862). "Catalogue of the Miocene Shells of the Atlantic Slope". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 14: 559–582+586. JSTOR 4059514.
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