Inquisitor lanceolatus
Appearance
Inquisitor lanceolatus | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
Genus: | Inquisitor |
Species: | I. lanceolatus
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Binomial name | |
Inquisitor lanceolatus (L.H. Hupé, 1854 )
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Synonyms | |
† Pleurotoma lanceolata Hupé, 1854 |
Inquisitor lanceolatus is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]
Description
[edit]The length of the shell attains 27.5 mm.
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Distribution
[edit]This extinct marine species was found in Miocene strata of the Navidad Formation, Central Chile.
References
[edit]- Hupé, H. 1854. Malacología y conquiliología. In C. Gay (Ed.): Historia física y política de Chile. Vol. 8 und Atlas (Zoológica). Maulde et Renou, Paris, 449 S.
External links
[edit]- Nielsen, Sven N. (2003). Die marinen Gastropoden (exklusive Heterostropha) aus dem Miozän von Zentralchile (PDF) (Doctoral thesis) (in German). University of Hamburg.