Crassispira mausseneti

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Crassispira mausseneti
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Shells of Crassispira mausseneti (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Crassispira
Species:
C. mausseneti
Binomial name
Crassispira mausseneti
(Cossmann, 1889)
Synonyms

† Drillia (Crassispira) maussenetiCossmann, 1889

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

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Description

The length of the shell attains 5 mm and a diameter of 2 mm. It lived in marine environments. [2]

"Small, short shell, with a conoid and obtuse apex, composed of slightly convex whorls, slightly excavated at the back, separated by a suture accompanied by a prominent and almost smooth rim, adorned with small curved ribs crenellating four prominent cords and giving the surface a rough appearance that persists on the last whorl; this is almost equal to half the length, attenuated at the base, which bears four or five smooth and spaced keels, crossed by fine and sinuous folds; opening small, rounded; canal wide and short, barely inflected." [3]

Distribution

Fossils have been found in Eocene strata in the Paris Basin, France.

References

  1. ↑ MNHN, Paris: Crassispira hypermeces
  2. ↑ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Out of scope". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
  3. ↑ Crossman (1889). "Annals of the Royal Malacological Society of Belgium". Annals of the Royal Malacological Society of Belgium. 24: 280 – via Biodiversity Library.


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