Acteon glans is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Acteonidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Acteon glans I. Lea, 1846 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1353925 on 2024-04-04
Description (Original description) The thin shell is sub-ovate, imperforate, smooth and glabrous. The spire is ovately-conical, short and mamillate. The sutures are deep. The shell contains four whorls, very slightly convex, sub-canaliculate at the upper suture. The body whorl is rounded. The base of the shell is smooth. The aperture is ovate and very effuse. The fold on the columella is small and oblique.Lea, H. C. (1846). Description of some new fossil shells, from the Tertiary of Petersburg, Virginia. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series. 9(2): 229-274.
Distribution Fossils of this marine species have been found in Late Miocene to Middle Pliocene strata of the Yorktown Formation in Virginia, USA.
References
External links Cunha, C. M. & Salvador, R. B. (2018). Type specimens of fossil “Architectibranchia” and Cephalaspidea (Mollusca, Heterobranchia) in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 94(2): 505-527