Crassispira Mekranica

Crassispira mekranica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Crassispira
Species:	C. mekranica
Binomial name
	Crassispira mekranica; (Vredenburg 1925)
Synonyms
	† Drillia (Crassispira) mekranica Vredenburg 1925 ;

Short description: Extinct species of gastropod

Crassispira mekranica is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 21 mm, its diameter 5.5 mm.

Fossils have been found in Tertiary strata of Northwest India .

E. Vredenburg. 1925. Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Cephalopoda, Opisthobranchiata, Siphonostomata. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 50(1):1-350