Raphitoma alfurica

Raphitoma alfurica is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Raphitoma alfurica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Raphitoma
Species:
R. alfurica
Binomial name
Raphitoma alfurica
P. J. Fischer, 1927

Description

Distribution

Fossils of this extinct marine species were found in Pliocene strata on Timor.

References

  1. Fischer, P. J. "Beitrag zur kenntnis der Pliozän-fauna der Molukken-inseln Seran und Obi." Paläontologie von Timor 15.25 (1927): 1-179.
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.


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