Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Pleioptygmatidae Scientific name Pleioptygma carolinense | Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Muricoidea Genus Pleioptygma Rank Species | |
Pleioptygma carolinense is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pleioptygmatidae.
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Pleioptygma carolinensis is the type species of the genus Pleioptygma.
Distribution
This species is found in the Pliocene deposits of North Carolina. The type locality is Duplin County, North Carolina.
Description
The type description of Pleioptygma carolinensis originally described as Voluta carolinensis by Timothy Abbott Conrad (1840) reads as follows:
References
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