Turris kaffraria

Turris kaffraria
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

Last updated November 20, 2025

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]

Distribution

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

References

↑ Fossilworks: Turris kaffraria
↑ 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 (4): 449–475. doi:10.1016/S0195-6671(03)00055-7.

Woods, H., 1906. The Cretaceous fauna of Pondoland. Ann. SA Mus. 4, 275–350.
L. Riedel. 1933. Die Oberkreide vom Mungofluß in Kamerun und ihre Fauna. Beiträge zur Geologischen Erforschung der Deutschen Schutzgebiete 16:1-154

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[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 (4): 449–475. doi:10.1016/S0195-6671(03)00055-7.

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