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Bathytoma cataphracta

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Extinct species of gastropod

Bathytoma cataphracta
Several shells of Bathytoma cataphracta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae
Genus: Bathytoma
Species: B. cataphracta
Binomial name
Bathytoma cataphracta
Brocchi, 1814
Synonyms
  • Dolichotoma cataphracta
  • Genotia (Bathytoma) cataphracta
  • Murex (Pleurotoma) cataphractus

Bathytoma cataphracta is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.

Distribution

This extinct marine species was found in the Miocene of Denmark, Italy, Pakistan and in the Oligocene of Hungary

Description

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References

  1. Fossilworks : Bathytoma cataphracta
  • E. Vredenburg. 1925. Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Cephalopoda, Opisthobranchiata, Siphonostomata. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 50(1):1-350
  • W. Baluk. 2003. Middle Miocene (Badenian) gastropods from Korytnica, Poland; Part IV – Turridae. Acta Geological Polonica 53(1):29-78
Taxon identifiers
Bathytoma cataphracta


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