Biology:Boreocomitas oregonensis

Short description: Species of gastropod

Boreocomitas oregonensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Boreocomitas
Species:	B. oregonensis
Binomial name
Boreocomitas oregonensis (Hickman, 1976)
Synonyms
† Comitas (Boreocomitas) oregonensis Hickman, 1976 (basionym)

Boreocomitas oregonensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae.

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species were found in Oligocene strata in Oregon, USA.

External links

• Hickman C.S. (1976). Bathyal gastropods of the family Turridae in the early Oligocene Keasey Formation in Oregon, with a review of some deep-water genera in the Paleogene of the eastern Pacific. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 70(292): 1-119

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