Megasurcula kurodai

Megasurcula kurodai is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]

Megasurcula kurodai
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Megasurcula
Species:
†M. kurodai
Binomial name
†Megasurcula kurodai
(Otuka, 1934)
Synonyms

†Surculites kurodai Otuka, 1934

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species have been found in Middle Miocene strata in Japan.

References
  1. Mizunami Fossil Museum, Paleontological Database: Megasurcula kurodai
  • Otuka Y. (1934)，Tertiary Structure of the Northwestern End of the Kitakami Meuntainland, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, in Bull. Earthq. Res. Inst., vol. XII, pt. 3, pp. 566–638, pls. 55-51, 1 map


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