Mitreola is a genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]
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| Mitreola labratula Lamarck 1803 | |
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| Tribe: | Lyriini
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| Genus: | Mitreola Swainson, 1833
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Species edit
Species within the genus Mitreola include:[3]
- † Mitreola brohii Merle & Pacaud & Marivaux, 2014 [4]
- † Mitreola labratula Lamarck, 1803 (1 record from the Eocene in the United Kingdom) [5]
- † Mitreola monodonta (Lamarck 1803) (synonym : Mitra monodonta)
- † Mitreola salaputium T. A. Darragh 1989
- Species brought into synonymy
- † Mitreola branderi (Defrance, 1824): synonym of † Eovoluta branderi (Defrance, 1824)
- † Mitreola chaussyensis (Cossmann, 1907): synonym of † Eovoluta branderi (Defrance, 1824)
- † Mitreola parisiensis (Deshayes, 1832): synonym of † Eovoluta branderi (Defrance, 1824)
Description edit
These species were epifaunal carnivores.
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b Mitreola Swainson, 1833. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 December 2010.
- ^ The Paleobiology Database Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Paleobiology Database Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Merle & Pacaud & Marivaux, Volutidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of the Lakhra Formation (Earliest Eocene, Sindh, Pakistan): systematics, biostratigraphy and paleobiogeography; Zootaxa, 3826 (1) : 101-138, fig. 1-12. , 2014
- ^ GBIF : Mitreola labratula
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