Carinodrillia cymatoides

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Carinodrillia cymatoides
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Carinodrillia
Species:
C. cymatoides
Binomial name
Carinodrillia cymatoides
J. Gardner, 1938

Carinodrillia cymatoides is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies. [1]

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J. Gardner was of the opinion that this species was a possible precursor of Compsodrillia eucosmia (W.H. Dall, 1889), a Recent species that she thought belonging to Carinodrillia.

Description

The length of the shell attains 16 mm, its diameter 5.5 mm.

Distribution

This extinct species occurs in Miocene strata of the Alum Bluff Formation, Florida, USA.

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