Clathromangelia quadrillum
Shells of † Clathromangelia quadrillum (museum specimens at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Raphitomidae
Genus:	Clathromangelia
Species:	C. quadrillum
Binomial name
Clathromangelia quadrillum (Dujardin, 1837)
Synonyms [1]
† Mangilia quadrillumDujardin, 1837 † Pleurotoma quadrillumDujardin, 1837

Clathromangelia quadrillum is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae. ^[1]

Contents

• Distribution
• References
• External links

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]

References

• Cossmann (M.), 1896 Essais de Paléoconchologie comparée (2ème livraison), p. 1-179

External links

• Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308

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