Stromboidea

• Aporrhaidae
  • Alarimella Saul, 1998

Type species: Aporrhais vetus Packard, 1922 from the Turonian of southern California.

Original Description of the genus Alarimella by Saul, 1998:

• "A Rimella-like aporrhaid with sculpture of nearly aligned axial ribs and finer spiral cords but with an expanded outer lip. Whorls becoming carinate on body whorl; carina extending along trigonally expanded outer lip; outer lip with a posterior digitation proximal or adnate to the spire; interior of outer lip channeled opposite the carina."

Alarimella species are:

• Alarimella anae Saul, 1998
• Alarimella veta (Packard, 1922)

Etymology

• Ala: Latin for wing
• Rimella: a gastropod

History and Synonymy

2007

Bandel, 2007:

• "Also Alarimella Elder, 1990 [sic!], that was found to have the juvenile ornament of the shell similar to that of Calyptraphorus by Saul (1998) was not confirmed by Kiel & Perrilliat (2001)."

References

• Bandel, 2007
• Kiel, S. & Perrilliat, M. C. 2001: New gastropods from the Maastrichtian of the Mexcala Formation in Guerrero, southern Mexico, part 1: Stromboidea. (With 5 figures); Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, Band 222, Heft 3, pp. 407-426.
• Saul, 1998