Crassispira woodringi

Crassispira woodringi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Crassispira
Species:
C. woodringi
Binomial name
Crassispira woodringi
A.A. Olsson, 1930

Crassispira woodringi is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1] Fossils have been found in Eocene strata in Northern Peru; age range: 40.4 to 37.2 Ma. The species is named in honor of Wendell P. Woodring.

† Crassispira woodringi (A. Dey, 1961) (synonym: † Drillia (Crassispira) woodringi Dey 1961 is a junior homonym.[2][3][4]

References

  1. ^ Fossilworks: Crassispira woodringi
  2. ^ A. K. Dey. 1961. The Miocene Mollusca from Quilon, Kerala (India). Palaeontologica Indica 36
  3. ^ Fossilworks: † Drillia (Crassispira) woodringi Dey 1961
  4. ^ Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Crassispira woodringi A. Dey, 1961
  • A. A. Olsson. 1930. Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 3, Eocene Mollusca. Bulletins of American Paleontology 17(62):1-164


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