''Turris multigyrata'' 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

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species were found in

Eocene The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes from the Ancient Greek (''ēṓs'', " ...

strata in the Paris Basin, France.

References

* Cossmann M. & Pissarro G. (1904-1913). Iconographie complète des coquilles fossiles de l'Eocène des environs de Paris. Tome 1, Pélécypodes: pls 1-16 eptember 1904 pls 17-38 anuary 1905 pls 39-45 and Table alphabétique des espèces ctober 1906 Tome 2, Scaphopodes, Gastropodes, Brachiopodes, Céphalopodes & Supplément: pls 1-9 une 1907 pls 10-25 arch 1910 pls 26-45 arch 1911 pls 46-65, Errata, Table alphabétique des espèces and Addenda ctober 1913 Paris. * H. L. Abbass. 1967. A monograph on the Egyptian Paleocene and Eocene gastropods. United Arab Republic, Geological Survey-Geological Museum, Palaeontological Series, Monograph (4)1-154 multigyrata Gastropods described in 1906 {{paleo-Turridae-stub