Clathromangelia quadrillum
| Clathromangelia quadrillum | |
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| Shells of Clathromangelia quadrillum (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
| Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
| Clade: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Clathurellidae |
| Genus: | Clathromangelia |
| Species: | C. quadrillum |
| Binomial name | |
| Clathromangelia quadrillum (Dujardin, 1837) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Pleurotoma quadrillum Dujardin, 1837 | |
Clathromangelia quadrillum is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clathurellidae.[1]
This name has often been misapplied to the Recent Clathromangelia granum (Philippi, 1844)
Distribution
This extinct species was distributed in the Mediterranean Sea, dating from the Miocene. It was also found in strata from the Late Pliocene in Malaga (Spain). [2]
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