Urosalpinx cossmanni is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
| Urosalpinx cossmanni | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Ocenebrinae |
| Genus: | Urosalpinx |
| Species: | †U. cossmanni
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| Binomial name | |
| †Urosalpinx cossmanni Ortmann 1900
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| Synonyms | |
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Odontostomia leucostomoides Cossmann, non Sowerby | |
Description edit
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Distribution edit
Fossils were found in Miocene and Oligocene strata of Argentina (age range: 23.03 to 15.97 Ma).
References edit
- Ortmann, A. (1900). Synopsis of the Collections of Invertebrate fossils made by the Princeton Expedition to Southern Patagonia. American Journal of Science, series 4, 10: 368-381
- A. Gazdzicki and H. Pugaczewska. 1984. Biota of the "Pecten Conglomerate" (Polenez Cove Formation, Pliocene) of King George Island (South Shetland Islands, Antarctica). Studia Geologica Polonica 79:59-120
- Claudia Julia del Río, Tertiary Marine Molluscan Assemblages of Eastern Patagonia (Argentina): A Biostratigraphic Analysis; Journal of Paleontology Vol. 78, No. 6 (Nov., 2004), pp. 1097-1122
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