Pleurofusia fusus

Pleurofusia fusus is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]

Pleurofusia fusus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Pleurofusia
Species:
P. fusus
Binomial name
Pleurofusia fusus
Vredenburg 1921
Synonyms

Surcula (Pleurofusia) fusus Vredenburg 1921

Description

Distribution

This extinct marine species was found in Oligocene strata of Myanmar, age range 28.4 to 23.03 Ma.

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References

  • E. Vredenburg. 1921. Comparative diagnoses of Pleurotomidae from the Tertiary formations of Burma. Records of the Geological Survey of India 53:83–129


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