Promurex
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| Fossil shell of Murex spinicosta from Pliocene of Italy | |
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| Subgenus: | Promurex Ponder and Vokes, 1988 [1] |
Promurex is a subgenus of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the rock snails or murex snails.[2]
Extant and extinct species
Species within this subgenus include:
- Murex antelmei Viader, 1938 [2]
- Murex protocrassus Houart, 1990 [2]
- Murex spinicosta Bronn 1831 † (extinct) [3]
Murex spinicosta lived in the Pliocene of Spain and Italy and in the Miocene of Denmark and Germany, from 11.608 to 2.588 Ma.[3]
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