Obornella
| Obornella | |
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| Five views of a fossil shell of Obornella granulata | |
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| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda
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| Genus: | Obornella Cox, 1959
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Obornella is a genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pleurotomariidae, the slit snails, (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Species[edit]
Species within the genus Obornella include:
- Obornella granulata
- Obornella lakhaparensis [1]
- Orbornella plicopunctata
- Obornella thompsonorum
References[edit]
- Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 30(2):207-212. DOI:10.1016/j.jseaes.2006.07.016
- Paleobiology database info
- M. G. Harasewych and S. Kiel. 2007. Upper Jurassic Pleurotomariidae (Gastropoda) from southwestern Madagascar. The Nautilus 121(2):76-89