Hindsiclava pyrgoma is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
Genus: | Hindsiclava |
Species: | H. pyrgoma
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Binomial name | |
Hindsiclava pyrgoma Woodring, 1970
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 35.5 mm, its diameter 10.5 mm.
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Distribution
editFossils of this marine species have been found in Miocene strata in Panama; age range: 7.246 to 5.332 Ma
References
edit- W. P. Woodring. 1970. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoining parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(D):299–452