Urosalpinx cossmanni

Urosalpinx cossmanni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Ocenebrinae
Genus: Urosalpinx
Species:
†U. cossmanni
Binomial name
†Urosalpinx cossmanni
Ortmann 1900
Synonyms

Odontostomia leucostomoides Cossmann, non Sowerby

Urosalpinx cossmanni 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 and Oligocene strata of Argentina (age range: 23.03 to 15.97 Ma).

References

  1. ^ Fossilworks: Urosalpinx cossmanni
  • Ortmann, A. (1900). Synopsis of the Collections of Invertebrate fossils made by the Princeton Expedition to Southern Patagonia. American Journal of Science, series 4, 10: 368-381
  • A. Gazdzicki and H. Pugaczewska. 1984. Biota of the "Pecten Conglomerate" (Polenez Cove Formation, Pliocene) of King George Island (South Shetland Islands, Antarctica). Studia Geologica Polonica 79:59-120
  • Claudia Julia del Río, Tertiary Marine Molluscan Assemblages of Eastern Patagonia (Argentina): A Biostratigraphic Analysis; Journal of Paleontology Vol. 78, No. 6 (Nov., 2004), pp. 1097-1122


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