Raphitoma venusta
Appearance
Raphitoma venusta | |
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Shell of † Raphitoma venusta (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Raphitomidae |
Genus: | Raphitoma |
Species: | †R. venusta
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Binomial name | |
†Raphitoma venusta (Lea, 1833)
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Raphitoma venusta is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
Description
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Distribution
[edit]Fossils of this extinct marine species were found in Eocene strata on Alabama, USA.
References
[edit]- Cossmann (M.), 1893 Notes complémentaires sur la faune éocènique de l'Alabama. Annales de Géologie et de Paléontologie, t. 12, p. 3-5