Urosalpinx archipatagonica is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
| Urosalpinx archipatagonica | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Ocenebrinae |
| Genus: | Urosalpinx |
| Species: | †U. archipatagonica
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| Binomial name | |
| †Urosalpinx archipatagonica Ihering 1907
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| Synonyms | |
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Trophon leucostomoides | |
Description
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Distribution
editFossils were found in Miocene strata of Argentina (age range: 23.03 to 15.97 Ma).
References
edit- H. Ihering. 1907. Les Mollusques fossiles du Tertiare et du Crétacé supérieur de l' Argentine. Anales Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires 15(3):1-611
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