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Extinct species of gastropod From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Turritella vermicularis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turritellidae.[1]
Turritella vermicularis | |
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Fossil shell of Turritella vermicularis from Pliocene of Italy | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Family: | Turritellidae |
Genus: | Turritella |
Species: | T. vermicularis |
Binomial name | |
Turritella vermicularis (Brocchi, 1814) | |
These sea snails lived from the Miocene to the Pliocene epoch, approximately from 37.2 to 2.588 million years ago.[2]
Shells of Turritella vermicularis can reach a size of 28–83 millimetres (1.1–3.3 in).[3]
Fossils have been found in the Pliocene sediments in Italy and Spain, in the Miocene of Austria, Italy and Romania and in the Eocene of Namibia.[2]
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