Megasurcula kurodai
Appearance
Megasurcula kurodai | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
Genus: | Megasurcula |
Species: | †M. kurodai
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Binomial name | |
†Megasurcula kurodai (Otuka, 1934)
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Synonyms | |
†Surculites kurodai Otuka, 1934 |
Megasurcula kurodai is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]
Distribution
[edit]Fossils of this marine species have been found in Middle Miocene strata in Japan.
References
[edit]- Otuka Y. (1934),Tertiary Structure of the Northwestern End of the Kitakami Meuntainland, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, in Bull. Earthq. Res. Inst., vol. XII, pt. 3, pp. 566–638, pls. 55–51, 1 map