Globivasum aedificatum
| Globivasum aedificatum | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Turbinelloidea |
| Family: | Vasidae |
| Genus: | Globivasum |
| Species: | †G. aedificatum
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| Binomial name | |
| †Globivasum aedificatum Guppy 1876
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Globivasum aedificatum is an extinct species of medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Vasidae. [1][2]
Description
G. aedificatum is carnivorous. Measurements of the shell are 62.6 mm x 33.3 mm.
Distribution
Fossils of this marine species have been found in Miocene to Pliocene strata of the Dominican Republic. (age range: 7.246 to 5.332 Ma)
References
- ^ Fossilworks: Vasum aedificatum
- ^ Paleontological Research Institution (Ithaca, N.Y.); Columbia University (1895). Bulletins of American paleontology. Ithaca, N.Y., Paleontological Research Institution. p. 26.
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- E. H. Vokes. 1998. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 18. The Superfamily Volutacea (in part) (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology 113(354):1-54
External links
- Guppy, R.J.L. (1876). "On the Miocene fossils of Haiti". The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London. 32: 523.
- Vermeij, G.J. (2024). "Shell-based genus-level reclassification of the family Vasidae (Mollusca: Neogastropoda)". Zootaxa. 5405 (4). Retrieved 13 February 2026.