Pleioptygma carolinense
Pleioptygma carolinense is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pleioptygmatidae. "Pleioptygma carolinensis" is the type species of the genus "Pleioptygma". Distribution. This species is found in the Pliocene deposits of North Carolina. The type locality is Duplin County, North Carolina. Description. The type description of "Pleioptygma carolinensis" originally described as "Voluta carolinensis" by Timothy Abbott Conrad (1840) reads as follows: References. This article incorporates public domain text from the reference