Tosapusia cupressina

Tosapusia cupressina
	Shell of †Tosapusia cupressina (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Turbinelloidea
Family:	Costellariidae
Genus:	Tosapusia
Species:	†T. cupressina
Binomial name
	†Tosapusia cupressina; (Brocchi, 1814
Synonyms
	† Uromitra cupressina (G.B. Brocchi, 1814); †Vexillum cupressinum (Brocchi 1814);

Tosapusia cupressina is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.^[1]

Distribution[edit]

Fossils of this extinct marine species were found in Pliocene strata in Alpes-Maritimes,France and Miocene strata in Romania.

Chirli (C.) & Richard (C.), 2008 - Les Mollusques plaisanciens de la Côte d’Azur, p. 1-128, 5 figures
Harzhauser (M.) & Landau (B.), 2021 - An overlooked diversity—the Costellariidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda) of the Miocene Paratethys Sea. Zootaxa, t. 4982, vol. 1, p. 1-70, fig. 1-21

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