Megasurcula centroamericana

Short description: Extinct species of gastropod

Megasurcula centroamericana

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Caenogastropoda
Order:  | Neogastropoda
Superfamily:  | Conoidea
Family:  | Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:  | Megasurcula
Species:  |

M. centroamericana

Binomial name
Megasurcula centroamericana

B.M. Landau, F. Da Silva & S.M. Heitz, 2016

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

## Distribution

Fossils of this marine species have been found in Miocene strata in Venezuela.

## References

1. ↑ Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Megasurcula centroamericana

* Landau, Bernard M., et al. "Systematics of the gastropods of the Lower–Middle Miocene Cantaure Formation, Paraguaná Peninsula, Venezuela." Bulletins of American Paleontology 389.390 (2016): 1-582.

Wikidata ☰ Q59688066 entry

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