Turris kaffraria is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]

Turris kaffraria
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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

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Distribution

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Fossils of this marine species were found in Cretaceous strata in Cameroon (age range: 89.3 to 85.8 Ma)

References

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  1. ^ Fossilworks: Turris kaffraria
  2. ^ 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