Urosalpinx archipatagonica

Urosalpinx archipatagonica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Ocenebrinae
Genus: Urosalpinx
Species:
†U. archipatagonica
Binomial name
†Urosalpinx archipatagonica
Ihering 1907
Synonyms

Trophon leucostomoides

Urosalpinx archipatagonica 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 Argentina (age range: 23.03 to 15.97 Ma).

References

  1. ^ Fossilworks: Urosalpinx archipatagonica
  • H. Ihering. 1907. Les Mollusques fossiles du Tertiare et du Crétacé supérieur de l' Argentine. Anales Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires 15(3):1-611


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