Megasurcula cryptoconoides

Megasurcula cryptoconoides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Megasurcula
Species:
†M. cryptoconoides
Binomial name
†Megasurcula cryptoconoides
(J. Makiyama, 1926)
Synonyms

†Genota cryptoconoides Makiyama, 1926

Megasurcula cryptoconoides is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species have been found in Late Miocene strata in the Otokawa Formation, Japan.

References

  1. ^ Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Megasurcula cryptoconoides
  • Makiyam, J. 1926. Tertiary Fossils from North Kankyo-do, Korea. Memoirs of the College of Science, Kyoto Imperial University, ser. B, Vol. II, No. 3, pp. 143–160, pls. XI-XIII.


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