Megasurcula siogamensis

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

Megasurcula siogamensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Megasurcula
Species:
†M. siogamensis
Binomial name
†Megasurcula siogamensis
(Nomura, 1935)
Synonyms

†Surculites siogamensis Nomura, 1935

Distribution

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

References
  1. Tohoku University Museum: Megasurcula siogamensis
  • Nomura, S. "Miocene Mollusca from Siogama, Northeast Honsyu, Japan." Saito Ho-on Kai Museum, Research Bulletin 6 (1935): 193-234.


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