Meioceras, CARPENTER (1859)

Raines, Bret, 2023, Caecidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from late Miocene exposures of the “ Imperial ” Formation in Riverside County, California, PaleoBios 40 (1928), pp. 1-11 : 8

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5070/P940753832
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11505415
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/204687F7-FFC4-9024-AC98-9FE1FD615219
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Meioceras
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GENUS MEIOCERAS CARPENTER (1859) View in CoL

TYPE SPECIES (SD: COSSMANN, 1912) MEIOCERAS CORNUCOPIAE CARPENTER, 1859 View in CoL , WEST INDIES

Diagnosis — Shell minute; teleoconch tubular, with adult stage having narrow posterior end, inflated middle region and contracted apertural end. Early teleoconch stages twisted to form helical spiral. Posterior end closed by conical septum. Protoconch planispirally coiled.