Mitreola (gastropod)

Mitreola is a genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutidae, the volutes.

Species

Species within the genus Mitreola include:

• † Mitreola brohii <small>Merle & Pacaud & Marivaux, 2014</small>
• † Mitreola labratula <small>Lamarck, 1803</small> (1 record from the Eocene in the United Kingdom)
• † Mitreola monodonta <small>(Lamarck 1803)</small> (synonym : Mitra monodonta)
• † Mitreola salaputium <small>T. A. Darragh 1989</small>

• † Mitreola branderi <small>(Defrance, 1824)</small>: synonym of † Eovoluta branderi <small>(Defrance, 1824)</small>
• † Mitreola chaussyensis <small>(Cossmann, 1907)</small>: synonym of † Eovoluta branderi <small>(Defrance, 1824)</small>
• † Mitreola parisiensis <small>(Deshayes, 1832)</small>: synonym of † Eovoluta branderi <small>(Defrance, 1824)</small>

Description

These species were epifaunal carnivores.

References

External links

• Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 281