Crassispira mekranica

Short description: Extinct species of gastropod

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

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.

## Distribution

Fossils have been found in Tertiary strata of Northwest India .

## References

1. ↑ Fossilworks: Drillia (Crassispira) mekranica

* 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

See also Wikidata entry Q56280934.

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