Haedropleura maitreja

Haedropleura maitreja is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.[1]

Haedropleura maitreja
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Horaiclavidae
Genus: Haedropleura
Species:
H. maitreja
Binomial name
Haedropleura maitreja
(A. von Koenen, 1872 )

Description

The length of the shell attains 7.5 mm.

Distribution

This extinct species occurs in Miocene strata of Belgium, Denmark and Germany

References

  1. Koenen, A. von. "Das Miocaen Nord-Deutschlands und seine Mollusken-Fauna." Schriften der Gesellschaft zur Beförderung den gesammten Naturwissenschaften zu Mar burg 10 (1872): 137–262.


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