Pleurotomella orthocolpa

Pleurotomella orthocolpa
Original image of a shell of Pleurotomella orthocolpa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Pleurotomella
Species:
†P. orthocolpa
Binomial name
†Pleurotomella orthocolpa
Cossmann, 1902

Pleurotomella orthocolpa is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Description

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species were found in Eocene strata of Loire-Atlantique, France.

References

  1. ^ MNHN, Paris; Pleurotomella orthocolpa
  • Cossmann (M.), 1919 Supplément aux mollusques éocèniques de la Loire-Inférieure. Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de l'Ouest de la France, sér. 3, t. 5, p. 53-141


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