Paraseraphs cantamessae Maxwell, Rymer & Congdon, 2018

Maxwell, Stephen J., Rymer, Tasmin L. & Congdon, Bradley C., 2021, Resolving phylogenetic and classical nomenclature: A revision of Seraphsidae Jung, 1974 (Gastropoda: Neostromboidae), Zootaxa 4990 (3), pp. 401-453 : 428-429

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4990.3.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5088711

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Paraseraphs cantamessae Maxwell, Rymer & Congdon, 2018
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Paraseraphs cantamessae Maxwell, Rymer & Congdon, 2018

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1974 Paraseraphs cf. armoricensis Cossmann — Jung 1974, p. 37, pl. 11, figs. 1–6.

2018 Paraseraphs cantamessae Maxwell, Rymer & Congdon , p. 37, fig. 1.

Type material. Holotype — USNM 135097 About USNM A. The type measures 56.9 mm in length and 11.6 mm in width ( Maxwell et al. 2018a).

Type locality. White Limestone Group , Port Antonio, Jamaica [Priabonian] .

Diagnosis. The shell is very slender with slightly concave whorls. There is a distinctive elongation of the shell on later whorls. The base of the shell is anteriorly quadrate. The shell spire is acute.

Distribution. EOCENE—Priabonian— Jamaica Port Antonio ( Jung 1974).

Remarks. Paraseraphs cantamessae is comprised of eight specimens, which are internal casts. The shape of P.

cantamessae is much narrower than the larger and more dorso-ventrally convex P. procerus ( Merian, 1844) , which shares a similar geological record. P. cantamessae is similar to other Paraseraphs from Europe, and particularly to P. armoricensis ( Cossmann, 1897) , and was likened to that taxon by Jung (1974), but occurs after that species disappears during the Bartonian. Paraseraphs canatemessae is similar also to P. propedistortus ( de Gregorio, 1880) , being slender with an acute spire, but the latter is restricted to the Lutetian of the Mediterranean.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Littorinimorpha

Family

Seraphsidae

Genus

Paraseraphs

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Paraseraphs cantamessae Maxwell, Rymer & Congdon, 2018

Maxwell, Stephen J., Rymer, Tasmin L. & Congdon, Bradley C. 2021
2021
Loc

Paraseraphs cf. armoricensis

Jung, P. 1974: 37
1974
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