Raphitoma defrancei

Raphitoma defrancei is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Raphitoma defrancei
Shell of Raphitoma defrancei (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Raphitoma
Species:
R. defrancei
Binomial name
Raphitoma defrancei
(Defrance in Deshayes, 1834)
Synonyms

Pleurotoma carinata Deshayes, 1834

It was renamed as Raphitoma defrancei by J. Tucker & Le Renard in 1993

Subspecies
  • Raphitoma defrancei dameriacensis G.P. Deshayes, 1865

Distribution

Fossils of this extinct marine species were found in Eocene strata in France.

References

Citations
Bibliography
  • Cossmann (M.) & Pissarro (G.), 1913 Iconographie complète des coquilles fossiles de l'Éocène des environs de Paris, t. 2, p. pl. 46-65
  • Le Renard (J.) & Pacaud (J.-M.), 1995 Révision des Mollusques paléogènes du Bassin de Paris. 2 - Liste des références primaires des espèces. Cossmanniana, t. 3, vol. 3, p. 65-132
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
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