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Cheilea uncinata

Geological Range

Early Miocene; Recent..

Paleogeographic Distribution

Northern Florida.

Remarks

For information on the modern distribution of the species, see Malacolog and WoRMS.

Original Description (from Reeve, 1859, p. 122):

"THE HOOKED CALYPTRAEA. Shell depressly cap-shaped, thin, slightly wrinkled, radiately densely very minutely striated, top posterior, sharply depressly hooked; transparent-white, hyaline; internal appendage oblique, prominent.

Hab. Island of St. Thomas, West Indies.

A hyaline, sharply-hooked, rather depressly cap-shaped shell, from the West Indies, composed of the same minute thread-rayed tissue as the Philippine Island species."

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Stratigraphic Occurrences

Early Miocene
Chipola Formation (N. FL)
<i>Cheilea uncinata</i> from the Early Miocene Chipola Fm. of Calhoun County, Florida (UF 119523).
Cheilea uncinata from the Early Miocene Chipola Fm. of Calhoun County, Florida (UF 119523).
Specimen of <i>Cheilea uncinata</i> figured by Reeve (1859, pl. 5, fig. 17a and 17b); no scale.
Specimen of Cheilea uncinata figured by Reeve (1859, pl. 5, fig. 17a and 17b); no scale.
Early Miocene Map
Early Miocene Map<