Mangelia sp.

Bouchard, Blanche, Wesselingh, Frank P., Pouwer, Ronald & Landau, Bernard, 2025, The Gelasian gastropod fauna of Selsoif (Manche, France), Geodiversitas 47 (3), pp. 39-91 : 74

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2025v47a3
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scientific name	Mangelia sp.
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Mangelia sp.

( Fig. 12F 1-F 3)

MATERIAL AND DIMENSIONS. — Maximum height 3.6 mm, width 1.4 mm. — RGM.1365116 (6), leg. AWJ; RGM.1365293 (1), leg. ACJ; RGM.1365292 (5), leg. ACJ.

SPECIES CHARACTERISATION. — Shell small, slender fusiform. Protoconch not preserved. Teleoconch of 4.5 convex, weakly shouldered whorls bearing ten elevated, opisthocline ribs, about half width of their interspaces. No sign of spiral sculpture; possibly abraded. Last whorl elongate, weakly shouldered, moderately constricted at base. Aperture elongate, outer lip incomplete. Columella weakly excavated, siphonal canal moderately long, open, wide.

DISTRIBUTION. — Lower Pleistocene: Atlantic, Selsoif, NW France (this paper).

REMARK

All specimens are too incomplete and abraded to offer further identification.