Turricula orthocolpa
Appearance
Turricula orthocolpa | |
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Shell of † Turricula orthocolpa (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Clavatulidae |
Genus: | Turricula |
Species: | T. orthocolpa
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Binomial name | |
Turricula orthocolpa Cossmann, 1913
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Turricula orthocolpa is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1]
Distribution
[edit]Fossils of this marine species were found in Miocene strata in Martinique.
References
[edit]- Cossmann (M.), 1913 - Étude comparative de fossiles miocéniques recueillis à la Martinique et à l'Isthme de Panama. Journal de Conchyliologie, t. 61, vol. 1, p. 1-64