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

Inquisitor cotteri
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Inquisitor
Species:
I. cotteri
Binomial name
Inquisitor cotteri
(E.W. Vredenburg, 1921)
Synonyms

Drillia (Crassispira) cotteri E.W. Vredenburg, 1921

Description

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Distribution

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This extinct marine species was found in Miocene strata in Myanmar and India; age range: 23.03 to 20.43 Ma.

References

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  • E. Vredenburg. 1921. Results of a revision of some portions of Dr Noetling's second monograph on the Tertiary fauna of Burma. Records of the Geological Survey of India 51:224-302
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