Bathytoma cataphracta

Bathytoma cataphracta
Several shells of Bathytoma cataphracta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: 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.[1]

Distribution

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

References


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