Zebinella eleonorae is an extinct species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoinidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Zebinella eleonorae (Boettger, 1902) †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=766538 on 2023-10-31
Description The length of the shell attains 6.5 mm, its diameter 2.5 mm.
Of the three poorly preserved specimens described by Baluk in 2006, one is 5.6 mm high ad 2.22 mm wide while another specimen is 2.8 mm wide.
Specimens from Kostej and Lapugy in Transylvania described by Boettger in 1901 are characterized by a variable number of axial ribs on the penultimate whorl: 27-41. In 1907, he describes specimens from Korytnica with 24-28 axial ribs. Distribution Fossils of this marine species were found in Middle Miocene strata in Central Europe.
References
Zilch, A. (1934). Zur Fauna des Mittel-Miocäns von Kostej (Banat). Typus-Bestimmung und Tafeln zu O. Boettger's Bearbeitungen. Senckenbergiana 16:193-302. 22: pls.
External links ettger, O. (1902). Zur Kenntnis der Fauna der Mittelmiocänen Schichten von Kostej im Krassó-Szörénver Komitat. (Mit einem Situationsplan der Fundpunkte). II. Verhandlungen und Mitteilungen des Siebenbürgischen Vereins für Naturwissenschaften zu Hermannstadt. 51: 1-200