Pleurofusia fusus is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]
Pleurofusia fusus | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Drilliidae |
Genus: | †Pleurofusia |
Species: | †P. fusus
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Binomial name | |
†Pleurofusia fusus Vredenburg 1921
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Synonyms | |
† Surcula (Pleurofusia) fusus Vredenburg 1921 |
Distribution
editThis extinct marine species was found in the Oligocene strata of Myanmar, age range of 28.4 to 23.03 Ma.
References
edit- E. Vredenburg. 1921. Comparative diagnoses of Pleurotomidae from the Tertiary formations of Burma. Records of the Geological Survey of India 53:83–129