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Turritella vermicularis
Extinct species of gastropod From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Turritella vermicularis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turritellidae.[1]
These sea snails lived from the Miocene to the Pliocene epoch, approximately from 37.2 to 2.588 million years ago.[2]
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Description
Shells of Turritella vermicularis can reach a size of 28–83 millimetres (1.1–3.3 in).[3]
Distribution
Fossils have been found in the Pliocene sediments in Italy and Spain, in the Miocene of Austria, Italy and Romania and in the Eocene of Namibia.[2]
References
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