Cryoturris aptera

Cryoturris aptera is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Cryoturris aptera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Cryoturris
Species:
C. aptera
Binomial name
Cryoturris aptera
Woodring, 1928
Synonyms

Kurtziella (Cryoturris) aptera Woodring 1928

Description

The length of the shell attains 11.4 mm, its diameter 3.9 mm.

Distribution

This extinct marine species has been found in Pliocene strata of the Bowden Formation, Jamaica; age range: 3.6 to 2.588 Ma.

References

  • W. P. Woodring. 1928. Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results . Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies
  • A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.

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