Raphitoma garlandi

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

Raphitoma garlandi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Raphitoma
Species:
R. garlandi
Binomial name
Raphitoma garlandi
F.W. Harmer, 1918
Synonyms

† Bela consimilis Glibert, 1960

Distribution

Fossils of this extinct marine species were found in Pliocene strata in Suffolk, GB

References
  1. Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
  • Harmer, F. W. "IV. The Stratigraphical Position of the Coralline Crag." Geological Magazine 5.9 (1918): 409–412.


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