Penion crawfordi

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Penion crawfordi
Temporal range: Middle to Late Miocene, 15.9–7.2  Ma
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An embedded fossil of Penion crawfordi at Cape Palliser, New Zealand.
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Austrosiphonidae
Genus: Penion
Species:
P. crawfordi
Binomial name
Penion crawfordi
(Hutton, 1873)
Synonyms [1]
  • Fusus crawfordi Hutton, 1873
  • Austrosipho (Verconella) latispinifer Marwick, 1932
  • Austrosipho masoni Fleming, 1943
  • Austrosipho takapauensis Fleming, 1943
  • Murex crawfordi Hutton, 1873
  • Verconella crawfordi Hutton, 1873
  • Austrosipho (Verconella) crawfordi Hutton, 1873
  • Verconella latispinifer

Penion crawfordi is an extinct species of marine snail or whelk, belonging to the true whelk family Austrosiphonidae. [2] [1] [3]

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Description

Penion crawfordi is a large, extinct species of Penion siphon whelk. [1] [3] Shells of P. crawfordi have spine-like, dorso-ventrally compressed nodules on the shell spire. [1]

Distribution

Fossils of Penion crawfordi are found in northern South Island and southern North Island in New Zealand. [1] [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Beu, Alan G.; Maxwell, P.A. (1990). Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin. Vol. 58. Lower Hutt, New Zealand: New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. ISSN   0114-2283.
  2. ↑ Kantor, Yuri I.; Fedosov, Alexander E.; Kosyan, Alisa R.; Puillandre, Nicolas; Sorokin, Pavel A.; Kano, Yasunori; Clark, Roger; Bouchet, Philippe (2022). "Molecular phylogeny and revised classification of the Buccinoidea (Neogastropoda)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 194 (3): 789–857. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab031.
  3. 1 2 "WoRMS – World Register of Marine Species – Penion crawfordi (Hutton, 1873) †". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
  4. ↑ Crampton, J.S., Terezow, M. The Kiwi Fossil Hunter's Handbook. GNS Science, Auckland, New Zealand (2010). ISBN   9781869791889
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