Austrotoma echinata
| Austrotoma echinata | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Austrotoma |
| Species: | †A. echinata |
| Binomial name | |
| †Austrotoma echinata A. W. B. Powell, 1942 | |
Austrotoma echinata is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudotomidae.[1]
Description
The holotype has a shell length of 18.7 mm; its diameter 10.2mm.[2]
Distribution
Fossils have been found in Lower Miocene strata at Southland, New Zealand.[2]
References
- ↑ Austrotoma echinata A. W. B. Powell, 1942. 29 April 2026. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- 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: 74. Retrieved 29 April 2026. (source-attribution}}
- Beu, A.G. & Maxwell, P.A. (1990) Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin, 58, 1–518.
- 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.