Urosalpinx rusticus is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
Urosalpinx rusticus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Muricidae |
Subfamily: | Ocenebrinae |
Genus: | Urosalpinx |
Species: | †U. rusticus
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Binomial name | |
†Urosalpinx rusticus (T.A. Conrad, 1839)
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Synonyms | |
Fusus rusticus T.A. Conrad, 1839 |
Description
editThe length of the shell attains 42 mm.
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Distribution
editFossils were found in Miocene strata of Virginia and Maryland, USA (age range: 11.608 to 5.332 Ma)
References
edit- G. C. Martin. 1904. Gastropoda. Maryland Geological Survey Miocene(Text):131-269
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