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Haedropleura orientalis

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Haedropleura orientalis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Horaiclavidae
Genus: Haedropleura
Species:
H. orientalis
Binomial name
Haedropleura orientalis
Vredenburg 1923
Synonyms

Bela (Haedropleura) orientalis Vredenburg 1923

Haedropleura orientalis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.[1]

Description

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The length of the shell attains 33.7 mm.

Distribution

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This extinct species occurs in Paleocene strata of India; age range: 58.7 to 55.8 Ma

References

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  • E. Vredenburg. 1923. Indian Tertiary Gastropoda, No. 5, Fusidae, Turbinellidae, Chrysodomidae, Strepturidae, Buccinidae, Nassidae, Columbellidae, with a short diagnoses of new species by the late E. Vredenburg. Records of the Geological Survey of India 55(1):52-77
  • R. P. Kachhara, K. Bigyapati Devi, and R. L. Joghawat. 2011. Molluscan Assemblage from the Marine Palaeocene Sequence in Southwestern Kachchh, Gujarat. Journal Gological Society of India 78:81–91