Raphitoma venusta

Raphitoma venusta is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Raphitoma venusta
Shell of † Raphitoma venusta (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Raphitoma
Species:
†R. venusta
Binomial name
†Raphitoma venusta
(Lea, 1833)

Distribution

Fossils of this extinct marine species were found in Eocene strata on Alabama, USA.

References
  1. MNHN, Paris: Raphitoma venusta
  • Cossmann (M.), 1893 Notes complémentaires sur la faune éocènique de l'Alabama. Annales de Géologie et de Paléontologie, t. 12, p. 3-5


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