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Inquisitor cosibensis

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Inquisitor cosibensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Inquisitor
Species:
I. cosibensis
Binomial name
Inquisitor cosibensis
(M. Yokoyama, 1920)
Synonyms
  • Etremopa cosibensis (M. Yokoyama, 1920)
  • Pleurotoma (Drillia) cosibensis M. Yokoyapa, 1920

Inquisitor cosibensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]

Description

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Distribution

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This extinct marine species was found in Pliocene strata in the Koshiba Formation at Kanagawa, Japan.

References

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  • Yokoyama, Matajiro. "Fossils from the Miura Peninsula and its immediate north." Journal of the College of Science, Tokyo Imperial University 39 (1920): 1–198.
  • Taki, I. and Oyama, K., 1954: Matajiro Yokoyama's the Pliocene and later faunas from the Kwanto region in Japan. Palaeontological Society of Japan, Special Papers, no. 2, pp. 1–68, pls. 1–49.
  • Oyama, K., 1973: Revision of Matajiro Yokoyama's type Mollusca from the Tertiary and Quaternary of the Kanto area. Palaeontological Society of Japan, Special Papers, no. 17, pp. 1–148, pls. 1–57.
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