Tessarolax

Tessarolax is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Aporrhaidae. The fossil shells of these snails are found in Cretaceous to Paleocene deposits in Europe, North America, and Madagascar.[1]

Tessarolax
Temporal range: 145โ€“58.7 Ma Cretaceous to Paleocene
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Tessarolax

Gabb, 1868

References

  1. Ludvigsen, Rolf & Beard, Graham. 1997. West Coast Fossils: A Guide to the Ancient Life of Vancouver Island. pg. 112


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