Paraseraphs ameri (Abbass, 1967)

Figure 7A

1967 Terebellum (Terebellum) ameri Abbass, p. 61, pl. VIII, figs. 3, 6.

Type material. Holotype — EMC G363. This is an incomplete specimen.

Type locality. Ras El Ghorab, Egypt [Bartonian] .

Diagnosis. The shell is smooth and fusiform with three whorls. The spire is acute with the final body whorl being more than 80% of the length of the shell. The aperture is narrow and the labrum is thin. There is a posterior canal, and the sutures are obsolete and linear.

Distribution. EOCENE—Bartonian— Egypt Ras El Ghorab (Abbass 1967). Lutetian— Egypt Mokattam (Abbass 1967).

Remarks. The taxon is known only from one partial specimen.