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Urosalpinx ortmanni

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Urosalpinx ortmanni
Shell of Urosalpinx ortmanni (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Ocenebrinae
Genus: Urosalpinx
Species:
U. ortmanni
Binomial name
Urosalpinx ortmanni
Ihering 1907
Synonyms

Urosalpinx leucostomoides (Sowerby in Darwin, 1878)

Urosalpinx ortmanni is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Description

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This species resembles † Urosalpinx archipatagonica Ihering 1907, found at the same location.

Distribution

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Fossils were found in Early Miocene strata of Patagonia, Argentina (age range: 23.03 to 15.97 Ma).

References

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  • H. Ihering. 1907. Les Mollusques fossiles du Tertiare et du Crétacé supérieur de l' Argentine. Anales Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires 15(3):1-611
  • Cossmann (M.), 1899 - Description de quelques coquilles de la formation Santa Cruzienne en Patagonie. Journal de Conchyliologie, t. 47, vol. 3, p. 223-242 pl. 10, fig. 7)