Vasum frequens
| Vasum frequens | |
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| Shell of Vasum frequens (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Turbinelloidea |
| Family: | Vasidae |
| Genus: | Vasum |
| Species: | †V. frequens |
| Binomial name | |
| †Vasum frequens (Mayer-Eymar, 1895) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Vasum frequens is an extinct species of medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae. [1]
Description
[edit]Measurements of the shell : 47 mm x 44 mm.
Distribution
[edit]Fossils of this marine species have been found in Eocene strata of Egypt
References
[edit]- Cossmann (M.), 1901 Additions à la faune nummulitique d'Égypte. Bulletin de l'Institut Égyptien, sér. 4, t. 1, vol. 6, p. 173–197
- Cossmann (M.), 1901 Essais de Paléoconchologie comparée. livraison 4, p. 1–293, fig. 1-31
- Douvillé (H.), 1921 - Mélanges paléontologiques : genre Eovasum - Glauconiidae, Pleuroceratidae, Pirenidae - genre Itruvia. Journal de Conchyliologie, vol. 66, p. 1–18
External links
[edit]- Cuvillier, Jean. "Contribution a l’etude geologique du Mokattam." Bulletin de l’Institut d’Egypte 6.1 (1923): 93-102.
- Cossmann, Maurice. "Additions à la faune nummulitique d’Égypte." Bulletin de l’institut d’Égypte 4.1 (1900): 173-198.
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