Turris kaffraria | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Turridae |
Genus: | Turris |
Species: | T. kaffraria |
Binomial name | |
Turris kaffraria Woods 1906 | |
Turris kaffraria is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids. [1]
Owing to its columellar folds, the authors Steffen Kiel and Klaus Bandel state that it certainly does not belong in Turris. [2]
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Fossils of this marine species were found in Cretaceous strata in Cameroon (age range: 89.3 to 85.8 Ma)
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