Urosalpinx trossula
| Urosalpinx trossula | |
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| Shell of Urosalpinx trossula (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Ocenebrinae |
| Genus: | Urosalpinx |
| Species: | †U. trossula
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| Binomial name | |
| †Urosalpinx trossula (Conrad, 1832)
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| Synonyms | |
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† Trossulasalpinx trossulus (T.A. Conrad, 1832) | |
Urosalpinx trossula 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 Miocene strata of Virginia, USA.
References
- Cossmann (M.), 1903 - Essais de Paléoconchologie comparée. Livraison 5, p. 1-215
- Korobkov (I.A.), 1955 - Spravochnik I methodicheskoe revodstvo po tretichnym molliuskam. Briuckhonologie [= Manuel et guide des Mollusques tertiaires, Gastéropodes], p. 1-795
- Blackwelder, Blake W. "Late Cenozoic stages and molluscan zones of the US Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain." Journal of Paleontology 55.S12 (1981): 1-34.