Paraguraleus abbreviatus

Paraguraleus abbreviatus is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Mangeliidae. Fossils of the species date to the middle Miocene, and have been found in strata of the St Vincent Basin of South Australia.

Description

In the original description, Powell described the species as follows:
The holotype of the species measures in height and in diameter, and a different type specimen seen by Powell measured by.

Taxonomy

The species was first described by A.W.B. Powell in 1944, as Guraleus abbreviatus. The species was moved to the genus Antiguraleus in 1970 by Thomas A. Darragh, This recombination is not supported by the World Register of Marine Species, which gives the accepted name of the species as Paraguraleus abbreviatus. The holotype was collected from the Metropolitan Abattoirs Bore in Adelaide at a depth of by Walter Howchin and Joseph Verco in 1919, and is held by the Auckland War Memorial Museum.

Ecology

P. abbreviatus was an epifaunal carnivore.

Distribution

This extinct marine species occurs in middle Miocene strata of the St Vincent Basin, including the lower Dry Creek Sands Formation of South Australia.