Pleurofusia feddeni

Pleurofusia feddeni is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]

Pleurofusia feddeni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: †Pleurofusia
Species:
†P. feddeni
Binomial name
†Pleurofusia feddeni
Noetling 1895
Synonyms
  • † Fasciolaria feddeni (Noetling 1895)
  • † Surcula (Pleurofusia) feddeni Noetling 1895
  • † Surcula feddeni Noetling 1895

Distribution

This extinct marine species was found in Oligocene strata of Myanmar; age range:28.4 to 23.03 Ma.

References
Notes
  1. Fossilworks: Surcula (Pleurofusia) feddeni
Bibliography
  • Noetling, Fritz. On some marine fossils from the Miocene of Upper Burma. Governor General of India, 1895.
  • E. Vredenburg. 1921. Results of a revision of some portions of Dr Noetling's second monograph on the Tertiary fauna of Burma. Records of the Geological Survey of India 51:224–302


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