Bactrocythara obtusa

Bactrocythara obtusa is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Bactrocythara obtusa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Bactrocythara
Species:
B. obtusa
Binomial name
Bactrocythara obtusa
(R.J.L. Guppy, 1896
Synonyms

Cythara obtusa R.J.L. Guppy, 1896/small>

Description

The length of the shell attains 5.4 mm, its diameter 1.9 mm.

Distribution

This extinct species was found in Pliocene strata of Jamaica; age range: 3.6 to 2.588 Ma

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References

  • Guppy, Robert John Lechmere. Descriptions of Tertiary fossils from the Antillean region. Vol. 19. No. 1110. US Government Printing Office, 1896.
  • W. P. Woodring. 1928. Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results . Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies
  • A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.

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