Carinodrillia pylonia is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]

Carinodrillia pylonia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Carinodrillia
Species:
C. pylonia
Binomial name
Carinodrillia pylonia
W.G. Fargo, 1953

Distribution

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This extinct species was found in Quaternary strata of Florida, USA and in Pliocene strata of Mexico; age range: 2.588 to 0.781 Ma

References

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  1. ^ "Fossilworks: Carinodrillia pylonia". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  • Fargo, W. G., Pliocene Mollusca of Southern Florida. Part II. The Pliocene Turridae of Saint Petersburg, Florida Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 18 365–409, pls. 16–24, 1953
  • M. C. Perrilliat and P. Flores-Guerrero. 2011. Moluscos de la Formación Agueguexquite (Plioceno inferior) de Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, México. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 28(3):379–397
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