Otitoma oyamai

Otitoma oyamai
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Otitoma
Species:
†O. oyamai
Binomial name
†Otitoma oyamai
(T. Shuto, 1965)
Synonyms
  • †Agladrillia oyamai Shuto, 1965 (original combination)
  • †Thelecytharella oyamai (Shuto, 1965)

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

This species used to be the type species of Thelecytharella (now considered a synonym of Otitoma).

Description

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species were found in Upper Pleistocene strata in Kyushu, Japan.

References

  1. ^ MolluscaBase (2018). Otitoma oyamai (Shuto, 1965) †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=987280 on 2018-12-26
  • Shuto, Tsugio. Turrid Gastropods from the Upper Pleistocene Moeshima Shell Bed. Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, 1965.


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