Pleurofusia phasma is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]

Pleurofusia phasma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Pleurofusia
Species:
P. phasma
Binomial name
Pleurofusia phasma
Vredenburg 1921
Synonyms

Surcula (Pleurofusia) phasma Vredenburg 1921

Distribution

edit

This extinct marine species was found in Miocene strata of Myanmar, age range 23.03 to 20.43 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