Biology:Penion crawfordi

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Short description: Extinct species of gastropod


Penion crawfordi
Temporal range: Middle to Late Miocene, 15.9–7.2 Ma
Penion crawfordi rock.jpg
An embedded fossil of Penion crawfordi at Cape Palliser, New Zealand.
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Austrosiphonidae
Genus: Penion
Species:
P. crawfordi
Binomial name
Penion crawfordi
(Hutton, 1873)
Synonyms[1]
  • Fusus crawfordi Hutton, 1873
  • Austrosipho (Verconella) latispinifer Marwick, 1932
  • Austrosipho masoni Fleming, 1943
  • Austrosipho takapauensis Fleming, 1943
  • Murex crawfordi Hutton, 1873
  • Verconella crawfordi Hutton, 1873
  • Austrosipho (Verconella) crawfordi Hutton, 1873
  • Verconella latispinifer

Penion crawfordi is an extinct species of marine snail or whelk, belonging to the true whelk family Austrosiphonidae.[2][1][3]

Description

Penion crawfordi is a large, extinct species of Penion siphon whelk.[1][3] Shells of P. crawfordi have spine-like, dorso-ventrally compressed nodules on the shell spire.[1]

Distribution

Fossils of Penion crawfordi are found in northern South Island and southern North Island in New Zealand.[1][4]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Beu, Alan G.; Maxwell, P.A. (1990). Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin. 58. Lower Hutt, New Zealand: New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. https://www.gns.cri.nz/gns/Home/Our-Science/Land-and-Marine-Geoscience/Paleontology/Online-Resources/Cenozoic-Mollusca-of-New-Zealand. 
  2. Kantor, Yuri I.; Fedosov, Alexander E.; Kosyan, Alisa R.; Puillandre, Nicolas; Sorokin, Pavel A.; Kano, Yasunori; Clark, Roger; Bouchet, Philippe (2022). "Molecular phylogeny and revised classification of the Buccinoidea (Neogastropoda)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194 (3): 789–857. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab031. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab031. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 "WoRMS – World Register of Marine Species – Penion crawfordi (Hutton, 1873) †". http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=831055. 
  4. Crampton, J.S., Terezow, M. The Kiwi Fossil Hunter's Handbook. GNS Science, Auckland, New Zealand (2010). ISBN:9781869791889

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q39088019 entry