Turris kaffraria

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Turris kaffraria
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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]

Contents

Owing to its columellar folds, the authors Steffen Kiel and Klaus Bandel state that it certainly does not belong in Turris. [2]

Description

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species were found in Cretaceous strata in Cameroon (age range: 89.3 to 85.8 Ma)

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References

  1. Fossilworks: Turris kaffraria
  2. Kiel, Steffen (2003). "New taxonomic data for the gastropod fauna of the Umzamba Formation (Santonian–Campanian, South Africa) based on newly collected material". Cretaceous Research. 24: 449–475.