Pleioptygma carolinense

This species is found in the Pliocene deposits of North Carolina.^[2] The type locality is Duplin County, North Carolina.^[2]

The type description of Pleioptygma carolinensis originally described as Voluta carolinensis by Timothy Abbott Conrad (1840)^[2] reads as follows:

Voluta Carolinensis. — Shell subfusiform; whorls deeply channeled below the suture; superior margin of the channel carinated;

spire elevated, with prominent, rather distant acute spiral lines on the three or four superior whorls; large whorl with obscure, distant spiral lines, except towards the base, which is sulcated, and strongly

striated. Length 3 inches.

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference ^[2]

• Conrad, TA (1862). "Catalogue of the Miocene Shells of the Atlantic Slope". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 14: 559–582+586. JSTOR 4059514.