Mitreola
Mitreola labratula Lamarck 1803
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Lyriini
Genus:
Mitreola

Swainson, 1833
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Eneata
  • Mitra (Mitreola) Swainson, 1833
  • 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 brohii Merle & Pacaud & Marivaux, 2014 [4]
  • Mitreola labratula Lamarck, 1803 (1 record from the Eocene in the United Kingdom) [5]
  • Mitreola monodonta (Lamarck 1803) (synonym : Mitra monodonta)
  • Mitreola salaputium T. A. Darragh 1989
Species brought into synonymy
  • Mitreola branderi (Defrance, 1824): synonym of † Eovoluta branderi (Defrance, 1824)
  • Mitreola chaussyensis (Cossmann, 1907): synonym of † Eovoluta branderi (Defrance, 1824)
  • Mitreola parisiensis (Deshayes, 1832): synonym of † Eovoluta branderi (Defrance, 1824)

Description

These species were epifaunal carnivores.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Mitreola Swainson, 1833. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 December 2010.
  2. The Paleobiology Database Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
  3. The Paleobiology Database Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Merle & Pacaud & Marivaux, Volutidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of the Lakhra Formation (Earliest Eocene, Sindh, Pakistan): systematics, biostratigraphy and paleobiogeography; Zootaxa, 3826 (1) : 101-138, fig. 1-12. , 2014
  5. GBIF : Mitreola labratula


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