Crassispira quoniamensis

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Crassispira quoniamensis
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Shells of † Crassispira quoniamensis
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Crassispira
Species:
C. quoniamensis
Binomial name
Crassispira quoniamensis
(Boussac in Périer, 1941)
Synonyms
  • Crassispira (Tripla) quoniomensis(Dolfuss, 1899)
  • Crassispira (Tripia) sulcata adriani(Dollfus, 1899)
  • Drillia quoniamensis Boussac in Périer, 1941

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

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This species, as † Drillia quoniamensis Boussac in Périer, 1941, has also been considered a synonym of Crassispira (Tripia) sulcata adriani(Dollfus, 1899) [2]

Description

Distribution

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

References

  1. MNHN Drillia quoniamensis
  2. Pacaud (J.-M.) & Ledon (D.), 2007 Sur les espèces de mollusques du Ludien (Priabonien, Éocène supérieur) du bassin de Paris introduites par Périer en 1941. Cossmanniana, t. 11, vol. 1-4, p. 7-25