Bathytoma cataphracta

Bathytoma cataphracta
	Several shells of Bathytoma cataphracta
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Borsoniidae
Genus:	Bathytoma
Species:	B. cataphracta
Binomial name
	Bathytoma cataphracta; Brocchi, 1814
Synonyms
	Dolichotoma cataphracta; Genotia (Bathytoma) cataphracta; Murex (Pleurotoma) cataphractus;

Bathytoma cataphracta is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.^[1]

Distribution

This extinct marine species was found in the Miocene of Denmark, Italy, Pakistan and in the Oligocene of Hungary

E. Vredenburg. 1925. Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Cephalopoda, Opisthobranchiata, Siphonostomata. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 50(1):1-350
W. Baluk. 2003. Middle Miocene (Badenian) gastropods from Korytnica, Poland; Part IV – Turridae. Acta Geological Polonica 53(1):29-78

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