Turricula lirocostata is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1]
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| Shell of † Turricula lirocostata (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Clavatulidae |
| Genus: | Turricula |
| Species: | †T. lirocostata
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| Binomial name | |
| †Turricula lirocostata Cossmann, 1899
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Distribution
editFossils of this marine species were found in Pliocene strata in Karaikal, India
References
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- Cossmann (M.), 1899 - Essais de Paléoconchologie comparée. livraison 3, p. 1-201
- Cossmann (M.), 1903 - Faune pliocènique de Karikal (Inde française). Journal de Conchyliologie, t. 51, vol. 2, p. 105-173
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