Urosalpinx ortmanni | |
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Shell of Urosalpinx ortmanni (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
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. ortmanni
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Binomial name | |
†Urosalpinx ortmanni Ihering 1907
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Synonyms | |
Urosalpinx leucostomoides (Sowerby in Darwin, 1878) |
Urosalpinx ortmanni is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. [1]
This species resembles † Urosalpinx archipatagonica Ihering 1907, found at the same location.
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adding to it. (January 2023) |
Fossils were found in Early Miocene strata of Patagonia, Argentina (age range: 23.03 to 15.97 Ma).
Urosalpinx ortmanni | |
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Shell of Urosalpinx ortmanni (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
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. ortmanni
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Binomial name | |
†Urosalpinx ortmanni Ihering 1907
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Synonyms | |
Urosalpinx leucostomoides (Sowerby in Darwin, 1878) |
Urosalpinx ortmanni is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. [1]
This species resembles † Urosalpinx archipatagonica Ihering 1907, found at the same location.
![]() | This section needs expansion. You can help by
adding to it. (January 2023) |
Fossils were found in Early Miocene strata of Patagonia, Argentina (age range: 23.03 to 15.97 Ma).