Penion crawfordi is an extinct species of marine snail or whelk, belonging to the true whelk family Austrosiphonidae.[2][1][3]
| Penion crawfordi Temporal range: Middle to Late Miocene,
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| An embedded fossil of Penion crawfordi at Cape Palliser, New Zealand. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Austrosiphonidae |
| Genus: | Penion |
| Species: | P. crawfordi
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| Binomial name | |
| Penion crawfordi (Hutton, 1873)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
Description edit
Penion crawfordi is a large, extinct species of Penion siphon whelk.[1][3] Shells of P. crawfordi have spine-like, dorso-ventrally compressed nodules on the shell spire.[1]
Distribution edit
Fossils of Penion crawfordi are found in northern South Island and southern North Island in New Zealand.[1][4]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e Beu, Alan G.; Maxwell, P.A. (1990). Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin. Vol. 58. Lower Hutt, New Zealand: New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. ISSN 0114-2283.
- ^ Kantor, Yuri I.; Fedosov, Alexander E.; Kosyan, Alisa R.; Puillandre, Nicolas; Sorokin, Pavel A.; Kano, Yasunori; Clark, Roger; Bouchet, Philippe (2022). "Molecular phylogeny and revised classification of the Buccinoidea (Neogastropoda)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 194 (3): 789–857. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab031.
- ^ a b "WoRMS – World Register of Marine Species – Penion crawfordi (Hutton, 1873) †". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
- ^ Crampton, J.S., Terezow, M. The Kiwi Fossil Hunter's Handbook. GNS Science, Auckland, New Zealand (2010). ISBN 9781869791889
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