Raphitoma birmanica is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
Raphitoma birmanica | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Raphitomidae |
Genus: | Raphitoma |
Species: | R. birmanica
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Binomial name | |
Raphitoma birmanica (E.W. Vredenburg, 1921)
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Description
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Distribution
editFossils of this extinct marine species were found in Miocene strata in Myanmar; age range: 23.03 to 20.43 Ma
References
editExternal links
edit- E. Vredenburg. 1921. Comparative diagnoses of Pleurotomidae from the Tertiary formations of Burma. Records of the Geological Survey of India 53:83-129
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.