Vasum haitensis

Vasum haitensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Turbinellidae
Subfamily:	Vasinae
Genus:	Vasum
Species:	†V. haitensis
Binomial name
†Vasum haitensis (G.B. Sowerby 1850)
Synonyms
† Turbinellus haitensi G.B. Sowerby 1850 † Vasum (Vasum) haitense (G.B. Sowerby 1850) Vasum engonatum Dall 1903 Vasum haitense engonatum Dall 1903 Vasum quirosense Hodson 1931

Vasum haitensis is an extinct species of medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae.

Description

The height of the shell: 60.0 mm, its diameter 37.0 mm.

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species have been found in Pliocene strata of the Dominican Republic; also in Miocene strata of Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Florida, USA and Venezuela (age range: 20.43 to 2.588 Ma)

References

• C. J. Maury. 1917. Santo Domingo type sections and fossils. Bulletins of American Paleontology 5(30):1-43

/ E. H. Vokes. 1970. Notes on the fauna of the Chipola Formation - III. Two new species of Vasum (Mollusca: Gastropoda), with comments on Vasum haitense (Sowerby). Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 8(2):88-92

• E. H. Vokes. 1998. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 18. The Superfamily Volutacea (in part) (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology 113(354):1-54
• M.C. Perrilliat. 1987. Gasteropodos y un cefalopodo de la formacion Ferrotepec (Mioceno Medio) de Michoacan. Paleontologia Mexicana 52:1-58
• B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva. 2010. Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy. Palaeontos 19:1-221