- Source: Acrilla semicostata
Acrilla semicostata is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Epitoniidae, the wentletraps.
Description
(Original description) The seven whorls are contiguous. The spire is transversely striated with numerous, slightly raised ribs. The lower part of each whorl is smooth and naked. The ribs scarcely cover two-thirds of each whorl.
Distribution
Fossils of this marine species have been found in Eocene strata in Val-d'Oise, France and in Barton on Sea, Great-Britain.
References
Cossmann (M.) & Pissarro (G.), 1907 - Iconographie complète des coquilles fossiles de l'Éocène des environs de Paris, t. 2, p. pl. 1-9 (
Le Renard (J.) & Pacaud (J.-M.), 1995 - Révision des Mollusques paléogènes du Bassin de Paris. 2 - Liste des références primaires des espèces. Cossmanniana, t. 3, vol. 3, p. 65-132
