Urosalpinx cymioides is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
Urosalpinx cymioides | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Muricidae |
Subfamily: | Ocenebrinae |
Genus: | Urosalpinx |
Species: | †U. cymioides
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Binomial name | |
†Urosalpinx cymioides H.A. Pilsbry & A.A. Olsson, 1941
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Description
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Distribution
editFossils were found in Pliocene and Pleistocene strata of Ecuador.
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