Nodisurculina rugata

Nodisurculina rugata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: †Nodisurculina
Species:
†N. rugata
Binomial name
†Nodisurculina rugata
(Conrad, 1862)
Synonyms
  • † Surcula rugata Conrad, 1862
  • † Leucosyrinx rugata (Conrad, 1862)

Nodisurculina rugata is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk currently unassigned to a family in the superfamily Conoidea the turrids and allies.[1] [2]

Description

(Original description) The fusiform shell is turriculate. It contains 10 whorls, the lower half obtusely ribbed. The upper half are concave, subangular, with much curved, rugose lines of growth. Beneath the suture whorls are obtusely subcarinated, with distinct revolving lines over the ribbed portion, minute and obsolete above it. The suture is profound. The body whorl and the aperture are striated. The aperture is slightly curved.[3]

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species were found in Miocene strata of Delaware, United States; age range: 20.43 to 15.97 Ma.

References

  1. ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Nodisurculina rugata (Conrad, 1862) †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1865165 on 2026-07-09
  2. ↑ Fossilworks: Leucosyrinx rugata
  3. ↑ T.A. Conrad, Descriptions of New Genera, Subgenera and Species of Tertiary and Recent Shells; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 14 (1862), pp. 284-291]
  • T. A. Conrad, Catalogue of the Miocene Shells of the Atlantic Slope; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 14 (1862), pp. 559–582+586
  • G. C. Martin. 1904. Gastropoda. Maryland Geological Survey Miocene(Text):131-269
  • E. J. Petuch. 1988. Neogene History of Tropical American Mollusks 1-217
  • L. W. Ward. 1998. Mollusks from the Lower Miocene Pollack Farm Site, Kenty County, Delaware: A preliminary analysis. Geology and paleontology of the lower Miocene Pollack Farm Fossil Site, Delaware
  • Kantor, Yuri I.; Fedosov, Alexander; Puillandre, Nicolas (2025). "Revision of the Indo-Pacific species of the genus Leucosyrinx Dall, 1889 (Neogastropoda: Conoidea: Pseudomelatomidae)". European Journal of Taxonomy (999). doi:10.5852/ejt.2025.999.2945.Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is under a CC BY 4.0 license.