Crassispira semicolon
Appearance
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
Genus: | Crassispira |
Species: | C. semicolon
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Binomial name | |
Crassispira semicolon (Sowerby I, 1816)
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Crassispira semicolon is an extinct species of carnivorous sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]
Subspecies: † Crassispira semicolon chameryensis (de Boury, 1899) (synonym: † Pleurotoma chameryensis de Boury, 1899) [2]
Description
[edit]The length of the shell attains 24.6 mm; its diameter 8.3 mm. It lived from roughly the Eocene period 47.8 - 41.3 million years ago, before having a last known appearance 3.60 - 2.59 million years ago, during the Cenozoic period.
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Distribution
[edit]Fossils have been found in Pliocene and Middle Eocene strata off Norfolk, Great Britain; also in the Paris Basin and the Loire Basin, France
References
[edit]- ^ Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Crassispira semicolon
- ^ J.-M. Pacaud and J. Le Renard. 1995. Révision des Mollusques Paléogénes du Bassin de Paris. IV - Liste systématique actualisée. Cossmanniana 3(4):155-187
- G.B. Sowerby I (1812-1822), The mineral conchology of Great Britain 1-4 (1-66), 793 pp. pls. 1-383
- Tracey, S. and Jonathan A. Todd. "Nomenclatural changes for some Bracklesham Group gastropods." Tertiary Research 16 (1996): 41-54.
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