Raphitoma birmanica
Raphitoma birmanica is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
| Raphitoma birmanica | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Raphitomidae |
| Genus: | Raphitoma |
| Species: | R. birmanica |
| Binomial name | |
| Raphitoma birmanica (E.W. Vredenburg, 1921) | |
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Distribution
Fossils of this extinct marine species were found in Miocene strata in Myanmar; age range: 23.03 to 20.43 Ma
External links
- E. Vredenburg. 1921. Comparative diagnoses of Pleurotomidae from the Tertiary formations of Burma. Records of the Geological Survey of India 53:83-129
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
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