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Urosalpinx kirbyi

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Urosalpinx kirbyi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Ocenebrinae
Genus: Urosalpinx
Species:
U. kirbyi
Binomial name
Urosalpinx kirbyi
B. L. Clark 1938

Urosalpinx kirbyi is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Description

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Distribution

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Fossils were found in Eocene strata in California, USA (age range:48.6 to 37.2 Ma).

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