Cythara polygona

Cythara polygona
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Cythara
Species:
C. polygona
Binomial name
Cythara polygona
W.M. Gabb 1873

Cythara polygona is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

This species is considered a nomen dubium.

Description

Distribution

This extinct marine species was found in Miocene and Pliocene strata in the Dominican Republic; age range: 7.246 to 3.6 Ma

References

  1. ^ Worldwide Mollusk Species Data Base: Cythara polygona
  • C. J. Maury. 1917. Santo Domingo type sections and fossils. Bulletins of American Paleontology 5(30): 1–43
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