''Turris perarata'' is an extinct
species
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of
sea snail, a marine
gastropod mollusk
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in the
family
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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 ...
, the turrids.
MNHN, Paris: Turris perarata
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Distribution
This extinct marine species was 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 Australia
References
* Cossmann (M.), 1896 - Essais de Paléoconchologie comparée (2ème livraison), p. 1-179
* Tucker (J.K.), 1993 - The nomenclatural status of four species of Australian Turridae attributed to Ralph Tate by Maurice Cossmann in the Essais de Paléoconchologie Comparée of 1896. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, t. 14, p. 73-76
External links
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perarata
Gastropods described in 1896
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