Urosalpinx trossula

Urosalpinx trossula
Shell of Urosalpinx trossula (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Ocenebrinae
Genus:	Urosalpinx
Species:	†U. trossula
Binomial name
†Urosalpinx trossula (Conrad, 1832)
Synonyms
† Trossulasalpinx trossulus (T.A. Conrad, 1832)

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

Description

Distribution

Fossils were found in Miocene strata of Virginia, USA.

References

1. MNHN, Paris: Urosalpinx trossula

• Cossmann (M.), 1903 - Essais de Paléoconchologie comparée. Livraison 5, p. 1-215
• Korobkov (I.A.), 1955 - Spravochnik I methodicheskoe revodstvo po tretichnym molliuskam. Briuckhonologie [= Manuel et guide des Mollusques tertiaires, Gastéropodes], p. 1-795
• Blackwelder, Blake W. "Late Cenozoic stages and molluscan zones of the US Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain." Journal of Paleontology 55.S12 (1981): 1-34.