Pseudexomilus caelatus

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

Pseudexomilus caelatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Horaiclavidae
Genus: Pseudexomilus
Species:
P. caelatus
Binomial name
Pseudexomilus caelatus
A.W.B. Powell, 1944

Description

The length of the shell attains 11.6 mm, its diameter 3.9 mm.

Distribution

This extinct marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs in Lower Pliocene strata off Adelaide, Australia.

References
  1. Powell, Arthur William Baden. "The Australian Tertiary Mollusca of the Family Turridae." Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 3.1 (1944): 3–68.


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