Crassispira kachhensis

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

Crassispira kachhensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Crassispira
Species:
C. kachhensis
Binomial name
Crassispira kachhensis
(Vredenburg 1925)
Synonyms
  • Drillia (Crassispira) kachhensis Vredenburg 1925
  • * † Drillia kachhensis Vredenburg 1925

Description

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The length of the shell attains 11.5 mm, its diameter 4 mm.

Distribution

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Fossils have been found in Miocene strata of Gujarat, India.and in Pakistan; age range: 20.43 to 15.97 Ma

References

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  • E. Vredenburg. 1925. Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Cephalopoda, Opisthobranchiata, Siphonostomata. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 50(1):1-350
  • M. Harzhauser, M. Euter, W. E. Piller, B. Berning, A. Kroh and O. Mandic. 2009. Oligocene and Early Miocene gastropods from Kutch (NW India) document an early biogeographic switch from Western Tethys to Indo-Pacific. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 83:333-372