Turricula lirocostata
Appearance
Turricula lirocostata | |
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Shell of † Turricula lirocostata (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. lirocostata
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Binomial name | |
†Turricula lirocostata Cossmann, 1899
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Turricula lirocostata 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 Pliocene strata in Karaikal, India
References
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- Cossmann (M.), 1899 - Essais de Paléoconchologie comparée. livraison 3, p. 1-201
- Cossmann (M.), 1903 - Faune pliocènique de Karikal (Inde française). Journal de Conchyliologie, t. 51, vol. 2, p. 105-173