Worthenia
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| Worthenia cf. tabulata | |
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| Family: | Kues & Batten, 2001 [2]
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| Genus: | Worthenia de Koninck, 1883[3]
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Worthenia is a genus of fossil sea snails, an extinct marine gastropod genus found in the fossil record. This genus is primarily found in rocks formed during the Devonian to Triassic periods (416 million to 200 million years ago) from the central areas of North America. Worthenia was named for the paleontologist Amos Henry Worthen who lived 1813 - 1888.[4]
Worthenia species have a "turban-shaped shell in which a raised ridge follows the margin of the whorls. Small nodes occur along the ridge, and the opening of the shell is oval and large."[5]
References[edit]
Wikispecies has information related to Worthenia.
- ^ "Lophospiridae (Family)". BayScience Foundation, Inc. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
- ^ Kues S. & Batten R. L. (2001). "Middle Pennsylvanian gastropods from the Flechado Formation, north-central New Mexico". Journal of Paleontology 75(1, supp): 1-95.
- ^ de Koninck L. G. (1883). "Faune du calcaire carbonifère de la Belgique, 4e partie, Gastéropodes (suite en fin)". Musée Royale d’Historie Naturelle Belgique Annales, Série Paléontoloque 8: 1-240. page 64.
- ^ National Audubon Society Field Guide to Fossils (408)
- ^ "Worthenia." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2010. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 04 Nov. 2010.
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