Tosapusia cupressina is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1]
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| Shell of †Tosapusia cupressina (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Turbinelloidea |
| Family: | Costellariidae |
| Genus: | Tosapusia |
| Species: | †T. cupressina
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| †Tosapusia cupressina (Brocchi, 1814
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Distribution
editFossils of this extinct marine species were found in Pliocene strata in Alpes-Maritimes,France and Miocene strata in Romania.
References
edit- Chirli (C.) & Richard (C.), 2008 - Les Mollusques plaisanciens de la Côte d’Azur, p. 1-128, 5 figures
- Harzhauser (M.) & Landau (B.), 2021 - An overlooked diversity—the Costellariidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda) of the Miocene Paratethys Sea. Zootaxa, t. 4982, vol. 1, p. 1-70, fig. 1-21
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