Megasurcula yokoyamai

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

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

†Surculites yokoyamai Otuka, 1934

Distribution

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

References
  1. Mizunami Sendai City Science Museum: Megasurcula yokoyamai
  • Otuka, Y., 1934a: Tertiary structures of the northwestern end of the Kitakami mountainland, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Bulletin of the Earthquake Research Institute, Tokyo Imperial University, vol. 12, pt. 3, pp. 566–638, pls. 44–51


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