Inquisitor cosibensis

Inquisitor cosibensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Inquisitor
Species:	I. cosibensis
Binomial name
Inquisitor cosibensis (M. Yokoyama, 1920)
Synonyms
† Etremopa cosibensis(M. Yokoyama, 1920) † Pleurotoma (Drillia) cosibensisM. Yokoyapa, 1920

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

Distribution

This extinct marine species was found in Pliocene strata in the Koshiba Formation at Kanagawa, Japan.

References

1. Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Inquisitor cosibensis

• Yokoyama, Matajiro. "Fossils from the Miura Peninsula and its immediate north." Journal of the College of Science, Tokyo Imperial University 39 (1920): 1–198.
• Taki, I. and Oyama, K., 1954: Matajiro Yokoyama's the Pliocene and later faunas from the Kwanto region in Japan. Palaeontological Society of Japan, Special Papers, no. 2, pp. 1–68, pls. 1–49.
• Oyama, K., 1973: Revision of Matajiro Yokoyama's type Mollusca from the Tertiary and Quaternary of the Kanto area. Palaeontological Society of Japan, Special Papers, no. 17, pp. 1–148, pls. 1–57.

External links

• University of Tokyo: Etremopa cosibensis (Yokoyama, 1920) Lectotype
• University of Tokyo: Inquisitor cosibensis