Sedilia aphanitoma

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

Sedilia aphanitoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Sedilia
Species:
S. aphanitoma
Binomial name
Sedilia aphanitoma
W.H. Dall, 1892

Distribution

This extinct marine species was found in Quaternary strata of Florida, USA; age range: 2.588 to 0.781 Ma.

References

  • Dall, W. H. "Contributions to the Tertiary fauna of Florida, Part 3: Wagner Free Inst. Sci." Trans 3 (1892): 349–350.
  • A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.


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