Bathytoma cataphracta
Bathytoma cataphracta is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1]
| Bathytoma cataphracta | |
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| Several shells of Bathytoma cataphracta | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Borsoniidae |
| Genus: | Bathytoma |
| Species: | B. cataphracta |
| Binomial name | |
| Bathytoma cataphracta Brocchi, 1814 | |
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Distribution
This extinct marine species was found in the Miocene of Denmark, Italy, Pakistan and in the Oligocene of Hungary
References
- E. Vredenburg. 1925. Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Cephalopoda, Opisthobranchiata, Siphonostomata. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 50(1):1-350
- W. Baluk. 2003. Middle Miocene (Badenian) gastropods from Korytnica, Poland; Part IV – Turridae. Acta Geological Polonica 53(1):29-78
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