Acrilla constantinensis

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Acrilla constantinensis
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Shell of Acrilla constantinensis (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Epitonioidea
Family: Epitoniidae
Genus: Acrilla
Species:
A. constantinensis
Binomial name
Acrilla constantinensis
Cossmann & Pissarro, 1902

Acrilla constantinensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Epitoniidae, the wentletraps. [1]

Distribution

Fossils have been found in Eocene strata in Lower Normandy, France.

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