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genus

Remnita Stephenson, 1941

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

Description

Shell of medium size, 28-50 mm., elongate fusiform, very slender, with a tall spire and narrow body-whorl, gradually tapered to a long straight unnotched anterior canal. Protoconch proportionately large, narrowly conical of 3-4 smooth regular whorls. subsutural margining very narrow. Sculpture initiated, and dominated throughout by spiral cords. Range -- Late Cretaceous of Mississippi and Texas, confined to the "Exogyra costata zone".

Sources

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

Links and literature

EN Paleobiology Database [11630]

Paleobiology Database [https://paleobiodb.org/] [as Remnita Stephenson, 1941]
Data retrieved on: 24 December 2015
EN The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [1371060]

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

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Explanations

extinct taxon