Hemisurcula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: †Hemisurcula
Casey, 1904

Hemisurcula is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Clavatulidae.[1]

Description

(Original description) In this genus the shell is fusiform, with the protoconch conoidal, multispiral and closely coiled. The nepionic (= relating to the stage of development succeeding the embryonic) spire whorls alone are costate and have also an elevated collar below the suture. The more recent whorls become devoid of lyrae or costae, though having throughout densely close-set and subequal microscopic striae, except the body whorl abruptly below the posterior end of the aperture, which is obliquely and rather coarsely lyrate. The siphonal canal is moderate, straight, and, together with the aperture, forms about half the length of the shell. The sinus is broadly rounded and median in position on the spire whorls. The columella is simple.

The type of this genus is PIeurotoma silicata, of Aldrich, a very remarkable and isolated species occurring in the Lignitic Eocene of the Gregg's Landing beds of Alabama. The beaded subsutural collar, subjacent depression and swollen and finely ribbed lower parts of the two whorls immediately below the protoconch are lost completely on the larger whorls, though the subsutural collar can be feebly traced as a slightly tumid line gradually descending further below the suture with the growth of the shell. Besides silicata, the genus will include the much stouter PIeurotoma roscoei Harris, from the same horizon.[2]

Species

  • † Hemisurcula oborni (Marwick, 1960)
  • † Hemisurcula perexilis Aldrich 1886 [3]
  • † Hemisurcula terus Garvie, 2013 [4]

References

  1. ↑ Marshall, B. (2015). Hemisurcula Casey, 1904 †. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=829411 on 2016-06-11
  2. ↑ Thomas Lincoln. Notes on the Pleurotomidae with description of some new genera and species. Academy of Science of St. Louis, 1904
  3. ↑ Fossilworks: Hemisurcula perexilis
  4. ↑ Garvie, Christopher L. "Additions to the molluscan macrofauna of the Reklaw Formation (Eocene: Lower Claibornian) and two new taxa from the middle Claibornian in Texas." Bulletins of American Paleontology 384 (2013).
  • Maxwell, P.A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. pp 232–254 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.