Gemmaterebra
Appearance
Gemmaterebra | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Terebridae |
Genus: | †Gemmaterebra Cotton, 1952 |
Type species | |
† Terebra catenifera Tate 1886 | |
Species | |
See text. |
Gemmaterebra is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Terebridae, the auger snails.[1]
Species
[edit]Species within the genus Gemmaterebra include:
- † Gemmaterebra bicorona (Hutton, 1885)
- † Gemmaterebra catenifera Tate 1886.
- † Gemmaterebra subcatenifera Tate 1889
Distribution
[edit]The species of this genus were found in Tertiary strata in Australia
References
[edit]- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2020). MolluscaBase. Gemmaterebra Cotton, 1952. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=828198 on 2020-01-30
External links
[edit]- Bernard C. Cotton, Australian Recent and Tertiary Mollusca (Terebridae, Rissonidae, Fascillariidae, Volutidae); Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia v. 75 (1952)
- Thomas A. Darragh, Catalogue of Australian Tertiary Mollusca (except chitons); Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria vol. 31 (1970)