Makiyamaia decorata

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Makiyamaia decorata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Makiyamaia
Species:
M. decorata
Binomial name
Makiyamaia decorata
Oleinik 1991

Makiyamaia decorata is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Clavatulidae.[1]

Distribution[edit]

Fossils of this species were found in Eocene deposits in the Lower Snatolskaya Formation, Russia (age range 48.6 to 37.2 Ma).

References[edit]

  • A. E. Oleinik and L. Marincovich. 2003. Biotic response to the Eocene-Oligocene Transition: Gastropod assemblages in the High-Latitude North Pacific. From Greenhouse to Icehouse. The Marine Eocene-Oligocene transition. 36–56