Knefastia limonensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Knefastia
Species:
K. limonensis
Binomial name
Knefastia limonensis
(A.A. Olsson, 1922)
Synonyms
  • Fusiturricula lavinoides A.A. Olsson 1922
  • Knefastia lavinoides (A.A. Olsson, 1922)
  • Turricula lavinoides limonensis A.A. Olsson, 1922

Knefastia limonensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 54 mm.

Distribution

This extinct marine species was found in Pliocene strata of northern Costa Rica and Miocene strata of Colombia and Panama; age range: 15.97 to 2.588 Ma

References

  1. "WMSD – Worldwide Mollusc Species Database – Knefastia limonensis". bagniliggia.it. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
  • A. A. Olsson. 1922. The Miocene of Northern Costa Rica. Bulletins of American Paleontology 9(39):1-309
  • B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva. 2010. Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy. Palaeontos 19:1-221


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