Hindsiclava caroniana is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]

Hindsiclava caroniana
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Hindsiclava
Species:
H. caroniana
Binomial name
Hindsiclava caroniana
(C.J. Maury, 1925)
Synonyms
  • Crassispira (Crassispira) caroniana (C.J. Maury, 1925)
  • Crassispira henekeni caroniana (C.J. Maury, 1925)
  • Drillia henekeni caroniana C.J. Maury, 1925

Distribution

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Fossils of this marine species were found in Pliocene strata of Venezuela and in Miocene strata of Trinidad and Tobago; age range: 11.608 to 2.588 Ma

References

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  • Maury, Carlotta Joaquina. "A further contribution to the paleontology of Trinidad (Miocene horizons)." Bulletin of American Paleontology 10.42 (1925): 153–410.
  • 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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