Urosalpinx coombsi

Urosalpinx coombsi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Ocenebrinae
Genus: Urosalpinx
Species:
†U. coombsi
Binomial name
†Urosalpinx coombsi
Durham 1944

Urosalpinx coombsi 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 Eocene strata of Washington, UsA (age range: 37.2 to 33.9 Ma).

References

  1. ^ Fossilworks: Urosalpinx coombsi
  • J. W. Durham. 1944. Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 27:101 -212


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