Cryoturris aptera is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
Cryoturris aptera | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Mangeliidae |
Genus: | Cryoturris |
Species: | C. aptera
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Binomial name | |
Cryoturris aptera Woodring, 1928
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Synonyms | |
† Kurtziella (Cryoturris) aptera Woodring 1928 |
Description
editThe length of the shell attains 11.4 mm, its diameter 3.9 mm.
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Distribution
editThis extinct marine species has been found in Pliocene strata of the Bowden Formation, Jamaica; age range: 3.6 to 2.588 Ma.
References
edit- 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 Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.