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Mangelia lissa

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Mangelia lissa
Temporal range: Miocene
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Mangelia
Species:
M. lissa
Binomial name
Mangelia lissa
(J. Gardner, 1947)

Mangelia lissa is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Description

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The length of the shell attains 8.1 mm, its diameter 3mm. [citation needed]

Distribution

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Mangulis lissa was found in the Alum Bluff Group, Florida, USA. This means it's from the Miocene Epoch, between 23 mya and 5 mya.[2][3]

It lived among other Mollusk species there.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Julia Anna Gardner, The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, Professional paper 142 (1947)
  2. ^ "Alum Bluff Group (FLMIab;0)". mrdata.usgs.gov. Retrieved 2022-12-04.
  3. ^ "International Commission on Stratigraphy". stratigraphy.org. Retrieved 2022-12-04.