Leucosyrinx nicoya

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Leucosyrinx nicoya
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Leucosyrinx
Species:
L. nicoya
Binomial name
Leucosyrinx nicoya
Olsson 1942

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

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species were found in Pliocene strata of the Charco Azul Formation of Costa Rica; age range: 5.332 to 2.588 Ma.

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