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genus

Amuletum Stephenson, 1941

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Turridae - Turrids

Description

Shell small, 10-15 mm., elongate-fusiform, very slender with a tall spire and long slender slightly flexed unnotched anterior canal. Protoconch large of 3-4 narrowly conical smooth whorls. Adult whorls rounded, slightly constricted on the shoulder slope and with a moderate subsutural fold. Adult sculpture of numerous spiral cords crossed by closely spaced long flexuous narrow axials which commence at the suture, cross the shoulder slope, very little diminished, regaining strength over the peripheral area and then gradually fading out over the base. There is a shallow subsutural sinus. The genus dilfers from Turricula in its very slender shape and narrowly conical smooth 3-4 whorled protoconch. Range — late Cretaceous of the southern United States.

Sources

Powell, A.W.B. : The Molluscan Families Speightiidae and Turridae. 1966.
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN Paleobiology Database [132504]

Paleobiology Database [https://paleobiodb.org/] [as Amuletum Stephenson, 1941]
Data retrieved on: 24 December 2015
EN The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [1066108]

Rees, T. (compiler): The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [https://www.irmng.org] [as Amuletum Stephenson, 1941]
Data retrieved on: 30 November 2019

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Explanations

extinct taxon