Tosapusia cupressina

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Tosapusia cupressina
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Shell of †Tosapusia cupressina (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Turbinelloidea
Family: Costellariidae
Genus: Tosapusia
Species:
T. cupressina
Binomial name
Tosapusia cupressina
(Brocchi, 1814
Synonyms
  • Uromitra cupressina(G.B. Brocchi, 1814)
  • Vexillum cupressinum(Brocchi 1814)

Tosapusia cupressina is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters. [1]

Distribution

Fossils of this extinct marine species were found in Pliocene strata in Alpes-Maritimes,France and Miocene strata in Romania.

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