Brachycythara turrita

Brachycythara turrita, is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Brachycythara turrita
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Brachycythara
Species:
B. turrita
Binomial name
Brachycythara turrita
W.C. Mansfield, 1930

Distribution

This extinct marine species can be found in Miocene strata of the Chotawhatchee Formation of Florida, USA.

References

  1. Mansfield, Wendell Clay. Miocene Gastropods and Scaphopods of the Chotawhatchee Formation of Florida: 1911–1930. No. 2–4. Florida State Geological Survey, 1930.


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