title: Mangelia elegantissima
text: # Mangelia elegantissima
  
  Mangelia elegantissima is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
  
  Not to be confounded with Mangelia elegantissima (Melvill & Standen, 1903), originally described as Cythara elegantissima and now a synonym of Paraclathurella gracilenta (Reeve, 1843)
  
  ## Distribution
  
  This extinct marine species was found in Miocene strata of Myanmar
  
  