Acamptogenotia

Acamptogenotia
Temporal range: Paleocene-Pliocene
Fossil shell of Acamptogenotia intorta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Turridae
Genus: Acamptogenotia
Rovereto, 1899
Synonyms

Pseudotoma Bellardi 1875 [1][2]

Acamptogenotia is an extinct genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks belonging to the family Turridae.[3]

Species

  • Acamptogenotia alazana (Cooke 1928) † [1][3]
  • Acamptogenotia heilprini Aldrich 1885 † [1][3]
  • Acamptogenotia intorta Brocchi 1814 † [1][4]

These sea snails lived in the Paleocene epoch of Denmark and Greenland, in the Oligocene epoch of Mexico and in the Pliocene (Piacenzian age) of Italy, from 61.7 to 2.58 million years ago.[3][5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Palaeos
  2. ↑ GBIF
  3. 1 2 3 4 Fossilworks
  4. ↑ Fossiles
  5. ↑ Sepkoski, Jack Online Genus Database
  • Bouchet, P., J.-P. Rocroi, J. Frýda, B. Hausdorf, W. Ponder, Á. Valdés & A. Warén. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47 (1-2): 1-397.
  • Powell, A. W. B. 1966. The molluscan families Speightiidae and Turridae: An evaluation of the valid taxa, both Recent and fossil, with lists of characteristic species. Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum 5: 1-184, pl. 1-23.
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