Raphitoma defrancei
Raphitoma defrancei is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
| Raphitoma defrancei | |
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| Shell of Raphitoma defrancei (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
| Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
| Clade: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Raphitomidae |
| Genus: | Raphitoma |
| Species: | R. defrancei |
| Binomial name | |
| Raphitoma defrancei (Defrance in Deshayes, 1834) | |
| Synonyms | |
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† Pleurotoma carinata Deshayes, 1834 | |
It was renamed as Raphitoma defrancei by J. Tucker & Le Renard in 1993
- Subspecies
- † Raphitoma defrancei dameriacensis G.P. Deshayes, 1865
Description
Distribution
Fossils of this extinct marine species were found in Eocene strata in France.
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References
- Citations
- Bibliography
- Cossmann (M.) & Pissarro (G.), 1913 Iconographie complète des coquilles fossiles de l'Éocène des environs de Paris, t. 2, p. pl. 46-65
- Le Renard (J.) & Pacaud (J.-M.), 1995 Révision des Mollusques paléogènes du Bassin de Paris. 2 - Liste des références primaires des espèces. Cossmanniana, t. 3, vol. 3, p. 65-132
External links
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
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