- Mitreola
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Mitreola Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade NeogastropodaSuperfamily: Muricoidea Family: Volutidae Subfamily: Volutinae Tribe: Lyriini Genus: Mitreola
Swainson, 1833Synonyms[1] [2] - Eneata
- Mitreala (misspelling)
Mitreola is a genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]
Species
Species within the genus Mitreola include: [3]
- † Mitreola labratula Lamarck, 1803 (1 record from the Eocene in the United Kingdom) [4]
- † Mitreola monodonta (Lamarck 1803) (synonym : Mitra monodonta)
- † Mitreola salaputium T. A. Darragh 1989
Description
These species were epifaunal carnivores.
References
- ^ a b Mitreola Swainson, 1833. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=527471 on 17 December 2010.
- ^ The Paleobiology Database
- ^ The Paleobiology Database
- ^ GBIF : Mitreola labratula
- Cernohorsky W. O. (1976). The Mitrinae of the World. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(17) page(s): 281
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