Urosalpinx ortmanni
Urosalpinx ortmanni | |
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Shell of Urosalpinx ortmanni (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Muricidae |
Subfamily: | Ocenebrinae |
Genus: | Urosalpinx |
Species: | †U. ortmanni |
Binomial name | |
†Urosalpinx ortmanni Ihering 1907 | |
Synonyms | |
Urosalpinx leucostomoides (Sowerby in Darwin, 1878) |
Urosalpinx ortmanni is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
Description
[edit]This species resembles † Urosalpinx archipatagonica Ihering 1907, found at the same location.
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Distribution
[edit]Fossils were found in Early Miocene strata of Patagonia, Argentina (age range: 23.03 to 15.97 Ma).
References
[edit]- H. Ihering. 1907. Les Mollusques fossiles du Tertiare et du Crétacé supérieur de l' Argentine. Anales Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires 15(3):1-611
- Cossmann (M.), 1899 - Description de quelques coquilles de la formation Santa Cruzienne en Patagonie. Journal de Conchyliologie, t. 47, vol. 3, p. 223-242 pl. 10, fig. 7)