Lost and found: The Eocene family Pyramimitridae (Neogastropoda) discovered in the Recent fauna of the Indo-Pacific
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Kantor, Yuri
Author
Lozouet, Pierre
Author
Puillandre, Nicolas
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Bouchet, Philippe
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Zootaxa
2014
3754
3
239
276
journal article
46667
10.11646/zootaxa.3754.3.2
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1175-5326
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Vaughanites leptus
Woodring, 1928
Figures 18
A–B
Vaughanites leptus
Woodring, 1928
: 201
, pl. 9 figs. 1–2.
Remarks.
Vaughanites leptus
was described from the Miocene of
Jamaica
, and classified in the
Turridae
Borsoniinae
by
Woodring (1928)
. It is characterized by a particularly long canal and the two strong columellar folds, better seen when the shell is slightly turned counter-clockwise, similar to the plaits of
Mitridae
. The protoconch is unknown, all nine specimens cited by Woodring have a broken apex.
Vaughanites leptus
is the only record of
Pyramimitridae
in the Atlantic Ocean after the late Oligocene apparent disappearance of the family in Europe.