Urosalpinx kirbyi

Urosalpinx kirbyi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Ocenebrinae
Genus: Urosalpinx
Species:
†U. kirbyi
Binomial name
†Urosalpinx kirbyi
B. L. Clark 1938

Urosalpinx kirbyi 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 in California, USA (age range:48.6 to 37.2 Ma).

References

  1. ^ Fossilworks: Urosalpinx kirbyi


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