Biology:Turris pulchra
| Turris pulchra | |
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| Shell of Turris pulchra (holotype) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Animalia |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Mollusca |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Gastropoda |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Caenogastropoda |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Neogastropoda |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Conoidea |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Turridae |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Turris |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | <div style="display:inline" class="script error: no such module "taxobox ranks".">T. pulchra |
| Binomial name | |
| Turris pulchra Dickerson 1915
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| Synonyms | |
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Hemipleurotoma pulchra Dickerson 1915 | |
Turris pulchra is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]
Description
Measurements of the shell: 20.0 mm x 6.5 mm.
(Original description) The fusiform shell contains nine whorls. The first four are turbo-form and smooth. The others are sharply angulated by a shoulder a third of whorl below the suture. They are decorated by twelve to fourteen subequal spiral lines which are slightly nodose where the fine sinuous axial ribs cross them. A beaded sutural collar occurs just below the indistinct suture. The aperture is elongate with its greatest width above, narrowing below into a slender siphonal canal. The outer lip is thin. The inner lip is slightly calloused.[2]
Distribution
Fossils of this marine species were found in Eocene strata in Oregon and Washington (state) , USA (age range:40.4 to 37.2 Ma)
References
Wikidata ☰ Q106193134 entry
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