Austrotoma cryptoconoidea

Austrotoma cryptoconoidea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Austrotoma
Species:
†A. cryptoconoidea
Binomial name
†Austrotoma cryptoconoidea

Austrotoma cryptoconoidea is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudotomidae.[1]

Description

The holotype has a shell length of 36.25 mm; its diameter 16.3mm.[2]

Distribution

Fossils have been found in Lower Miocene strata at Southland, New Zealand.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Austrotoma cryptoconoidea A. W. B. Powell, 1942. 29 April 2026. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. 1 2 Powell, A.W.B. (1942). "The New Zealand recent and fossil Mollusca of the family Turridae with general notes on turrid nomenclature and systematics". Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 2: 75. Retrieved 29 April 2026. (source-attribution}}
  • Maxwell, P. A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. Pp 232-254 in Gordon, D. P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.