Acrilla desertorum
Appearance
Acrilla desertorum | |
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Shell of Acrilla desertorum (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Epitonioidea |
Family: | Epitoniidae |
Genus: | Acrilla |
Species: | †A. desertorum
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Binomial name | |
†Acrilla desertorum (Wanner, 1902)
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Acrilla desertorum is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Epitoniidae, the wentletraps.[1]
Distribution
[edit]Fossils of this marine species have been found in Paleocene strata in West Senegal.
References
[edit]- Tessier (F.), 1952 Contribution à la stratigraphie et à la paléontologie de la partie ouest du Sénégal (Crétacé et Tertiaire).Tome 2, Troisième partie : Paléontologie, p. 281-463