Mitreola (gastropod)
| Mitreola | |
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| Mitreola labratula Lamarck 1803 | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Volutidae |
| Subfamily: | †Eovolutinae |
| Genus: | †Mitreola Swainson, 1833 |
| Synonyms[1][2] | |
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Mitreola is a genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]
Species
Species within the genus Mitreola include:[3]
- † Mitreola brohii Merle & Pacaud & Marivaux, 2014 [4]
- † Mitreola labratula Lamarck, 1803 (1 record from the Eocene in the United Kingdom) [5]
- † Mitreola monodonta (Lamarck 1803) (synonym : Mitra monodonta)
- † Mitreola salaputium T. A. Darragh 1989
- Species brought into synonymy
- † Mitreola branderi (Defrance, 1824): synonym of † Eovoluta branderi (Defrance, 1824)
- † Mitreola chaussyensis (Cossmann, 1907): synonym of † Eovoluta branderi (Defrance, 1824)
- † Mitreola parisiensis (Deshayes, 1832): synonym of † Eovoluta branderi (Defrance, 1824)
Description
These species were epifaunal carnivores.
References
- 1 2 Mitreola Swainson, 1833. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 December 2010.
- ↑ The Paleobiology Database Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ The Paleobiology Database Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Merle & Pacaud & Marivaux, Volutidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of the Lakhra Formation (Earliest Eocene, Sindh, Pakistan): systematics, biostratigraphy and paleobiogeography; Zootaxa, 3826 (1) : 101-138, fig. 1-12. , 2014
- ↑ GBIF : Mitreola labratula