Crassispira kachhensis

Crassispira kachhensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Crassispira
Species:	C. kachhensis
Binomial name
Crassispira kachhensis (Vredenburg 1925)
Synonyms
† Drillia (Crassispira) kachhensisVredenburg 1925 * † Drillia kachhensisVredenburg 1925

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 11.5 mm, its diameter 4 mm.

Distribution

Fossils have been found in Miocene strata of Gujarat, India and in Pakistan; age range: 20.43 to 15.97 Ma

References

1. Fossilworks: Crassispira kachhensis

• E. Vredenburg. 1925. Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Cephalopoda, Opisthobranchiata, Siphonostomata. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 50(1):1-350
• M. Harzhauser, M. Euter, W. E. Piller, B. Berning, A. Kroh and O. Mandic. 2009. Oligocene and Early Miocene gastropods from Kutch (NW India) document an early biogeographic switch from Western Tethys to Indo-Pacific. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 83:333-372