Crassispira woodringi
Appearance
Crassispira woodringi | |
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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. woodringi
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Binomial name | |
Crassispira woodringi A.A. Olsson, 1930
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Crassispira woodringi is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1] Fossils have been found in Eocene strata in Northern Peru; age range: 40.4 to 37.2 Ma. The species is named in honor of Wendell P. Woodring.
† Crassispira woodringi (A. Dey, 1961) (synonym: † Drillia (Crassispira) woodringi Dey 1961 is a junior homonym.[2][3][4]
References
[edit]- ^ Fossilworks: Crassispira woodringi
- ^ A. K. Dey. 1961. The Miocene Mollusca from Quilon, Kerala (India). Palaeontologica Indica 36
- ^ Fossilworks: † Drillia (Crassispira) woodringi Dey 1961
- ^ Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Crassispira woodringi A. Dey, 1961
- A. A. Olsson. 1930. Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 3, Eocene Mollusca. Bulletins of American Paleontology 17(62):1-164