Tenaturris isiola is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Tenaturris isiola
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Tenaturris
Species:
T. isiola
Binomial name
Tenaturris isiola
Woodring 1928

Description

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The length of the shell attains 9.1 mm, its diameter 3.9 mm.

(Original description) The stout shell is medium-sized. The stout protoconch is cylindrical and consists of about two smooth whorls. The aperture is relatively wide.

The sculpture consists of narrow axial ribs (16 or 17 on penultimate whorl), varicose here and there on the body whorl, weakly overridden by fine spiral threads. Microscopic frosted spirals visible in interspaces. [2]

Distribution

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This extinct marine species can be found in Pliocene strata of the Bowden Formation, Jamaica; age range: 3.6 to 2.588 Ma

References

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  • A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions