Bathytoma cataphracta is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1]
Bathytoma cataphracta | |
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Several shells of Bathytoma cataphracta | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Borsoniidae |
Genus: | Bathytoma |
Species: | B. cataphracta
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Binomial name | |
Bathytoma cataphracta Brocchi, 1814
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Synonyms | |
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Distribution edit
This extinct marine species was found in the Miocene of Denmark, Italy, Pakistan and in the Oligocene of Hungary
Description edit
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References edit
- E. Vredenburg. 1925. Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Cephalopoda, Opisthobranchiata, Siphonostomata. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 50(1):1-350
- W. Baluk. 2003. Middle Miocene (Badenian) gastropods from Korytnica, Poland; Part IV – Turridae. Acta Geological Polonica 53(1):29-78