Biology:Megasurcula yokoyamai

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Short description: Extinct species of gastropod

Megasurcula yokoyamai
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Megasurcula
Species:
M. yokoyamai
Binomial name
Megasurcula yokoyamai
(Otuka, 1934)
Synonyms

Surculites yokoyamai Otuka, 1934

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

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species have been found in Middle Miocene strata in Japan .

References

  • Otuka, Y., 1934a: Tertiary structures of the northwestern end of the Kitakami mountainland, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Bulletin of the Earthquake Research Institute, Tokyo Imperial University, vol. 12, pt. 3, pp. 566–638, pls. 44–51

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q59688138 entry