Eosurcula

Eosurcula is an extinct genus of gastropod from the Eocene of Asia, Europe, and North America.

Species

• † Eosurcula capayana <small>Vokes 1939</small>
• † Eosurcula cohni <small>Dickerson 1915</small>
• † Eosurcula inconstans <small>Cooper 1894</small>
• † Eosurcula moorei <small>Gabb, 1860</small> from Bartonian in Texas
• † Eosurcula praeattenuata <small>Gabb 1868</small>
• † Eosurcula stena <small>(Edwards, 1857)</small> from Hampshire

Original description

Genus Eosurcula was originally described by Thomas Lincoln Casey in 1904.

Casey's original text reads as follows:

References

This article incorporates public domain text from reference.

• Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 131)
• P. Jeffery and S. Tracey. 1997. The Early Eocene London Clay Formation mollusc fauna of the former Bursledon Brickworks, Lower Swanwick, Hampshire. Tertiary Research 17(3-4):75-137
• R. L. Squires. 2001. Additions to the Eocene megafossil fauna of the Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, southern California. Contributions in Science (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) 489:1-40
• J. J. Sepkoski. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

External links

• Eosurcula in the Paleobiology Database