''Turris aenigmaticus'' is an extinct species of

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

, a marine

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusk in the family

Turridae Turridae is a taxonomic family name for a number of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. MolluscaBase (2018). Turridae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 (1838). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Specie ...

, the turrids.Dartevelle (E.) & Brébion (P.), 1956 - Mollusques fossiles du Crétacé de la Côte occidentale d'Afrique du Cameroun à l'Angola. 1. Gastéropodes. Annales du Musée royal du Congo belge. Sciences géologiques, vol. 15, p. 1-128
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Distribution

This extinct marine species was found in Cretaceous strata in

Cameroun Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...

References

aenigmaticus Gastropods described in 1956 {{paleo-Turridae-stub