''Turris elsmerensis'' is an extinct

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of sea snail, a marine gastropod

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in the

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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 ...

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Description

Average measurements of the shell: 29.0 x 11.0 mm.

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species were found in

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, USA (age range: 5.332 to 3.6 Ma)

References

* W. A. English. 1914. The Fernando Group near Newhall, California. University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geology 8(8):203-218 elsmerensis Gastropods described in 1914 {{paleo-gastropod-stub