Tofanella Bandel, 1995

Gründel, Joachim & Nützel, Alexander, 2013, Evolution and classification of Mesozoic mathildoid gastropods, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58 (4), pp. 803-826 : 815

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Tofanella Bandel, 1995
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Genus Tofanella Bandel, 1995 View in CoL

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Type species: Turritella decussata von Münster, 1841 , original designation; Late Triassic , North Italy .

Included species: Turritella decussata Münster, 1841 , Late Triassic; Tofanella cancellata Bandel, 1995 , Late Triassic;? Tricarilda octoangulata Gründel, 2006 , Bathonian; several undescribed species from the Pliensbachian of England (JG, own observation).

Diagnosis.—“The turriculate shell has a major keel on the first whorls of the teleoconch, which disappears on later whorls as they become almost flat. The spiral sculpture is crossed by few collabral elements. The protoconch has a smooth surface, and the embryonic shell is immersed in its apex. In the larval whorls the sinistral coiling changes into dextral coiling before onset of the teleoconch. With transition from larval to adult shell sculpture and whorl shape change drastically” ( Bandel 1995: 21).

Stratigraphic and geographic range.—Late Triassic to Pliensbachian; England,? France, North Italy.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Family

Cimidae

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