Urosalpinx ortmanni
| Urosalpinx ortmanni | |
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| Shell of Urosalpinx ortmanni (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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
This species resembles † Urosalpinx archipatagonica Ihering 1907, found at the same location.
Distribution
Fossils were found in Early Miocene strata of Patagonia, Argentina (age range: 23.03 to 15.97 Ma).
References
- 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)