Mitrella debooyi
| Mitrella debooyi | ||||||||||||
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| Temporal occurrence | ||||||||||||
| Miocene to Pliocene | ||||||||||||
| 7.246 to 3.6 million years | ||||||||||||
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Cercado de Mao, Dominican Republic |
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| Scientific name | ||||||||||||
| Mitrella debooyi | ||||||||||||
| ( Maury , 1917) |
Mitrella debooyi is a fossil snail species from the family of pigeon snails (Columbellidae). It was discovered in 1916 by Carlotta Joaquina Maury in the Cercado de Mao fossildepositin the Valle del Cibao in the north of the Dominican Republic andscientifically describedby it in 1917 under the name Astyris debooyi . In 1964 she was placedin the genus Mitrella by the paleontologist Wendell P. Woodring (1891-1983). The species name honors the American archaeologist Theodoor de Booy , who worked in the Dominican Republic for some time. Mitrella debooyi is only known from three collections, two come from Mexico and one from the Dominican Republic. The species lived in the Miocene and Pliocene .
features
The case has six windings, the first two being glassy and robust and the four following porcelain-like and, with the exception of six surrounding embossed lines on the front part of the last winding, completely smooth. The spindle has thin calluses (callus) through which the six stripes surrounding the case are visible. The outer lip has six microscopic teeth, the rear two of which are much stronger than the others. The housing length is 5 mm, the width of the housing mouth 2 mm and the largest housing width 2 mm.
literature
- CJ Maury. 1917. Santo Domingo type sections and fossils . Bulletins of American Paleontology 5 (29): p. 100
- WP Woodring. 1964. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (Gastropods: Columbellidae to Volutidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306 (C): P. 241-297