Turris kaffraria
Turris kaffraria is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]
| Turris kaffraria | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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 | |
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)
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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