Syntomodrillia iphis

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Syntomodrillia iphis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Syntomodrillia
Species:
S. iphis
Binomial name
Syntomodrillia iphis
Woodring, 1928

Syntomodrillia iphis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]

Description[edit]

The length of the shell attains 6.3 mm, its diameter 2 mm.

Distribution[edit]

This extinct species was found in Pliocene strata of Jamaica; age range: 3.6 to 2.588 Ma.

References[edit]

  1. ^ W. P. Woodring. 1928. Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results . Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies
  • A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions

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