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Volutella haitensis

Volutella haitensis is an extinct species of medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Vasidae.

Description

The height of the shell: 60.0 mm, its diameter 37.0 mm.

(Original description in Latin) The shell is somewhat triangular and turbinated in form, transversely striated and covered with tubercles. The spire is rather depressed and slightly pointed. It consists of six whorls, which are angled at the posterior part and bear tubercles along the angle, with the sides sloping. On the anterior portion there are two rows of tubercles, of which the posterior row is much larger. The columellar lip is provided with four folds, and the siphonal canal is externally somewhat tuberculate.

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species have been found in Pliocene strata of the Dominican Republic; also in Miocene strata of Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Florida, USA and Venezuela (age range: 20.43 to 2.588 Ma)

References

  • C. J. Maury. 1917. Santo Domingo type sections and fossils. Bulletins of American Paleontology 5(30):1-43

/ E. H. Vokes. 1970. Notes on the fauna of the Chipola Formation - III. Two new species of Vasum (Mollusca: Gastropoda), with comments on Vasum haitense (Sowerby). Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 8(2):88-92

  • E. H. Vokes. 1998. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 18. The Superfamily Volutacea (in part) (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology 113(354):1-54
  • M.C. Perrilliat. 1987. Gasteropodos y un cefalopodo de la formacion Ferrotepec (Mioceno Medio) de Michoacan. Paleontologia Mexicana 52:1-58
  • B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva. 2010. Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy. Palaeontos 19:1-221

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