Crassispira lepta

Crassispira lepta
Shells of † Crassispira lepta (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Superfamily:Conoidea
Family:Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:Crassispira
Species: C. lepta
Binomial name
Crassispira lepta
(Edwards, 1861)
Synonyms
  • Pleurotoma (Oxyacrum) lepta Edwards, 1861
  • Drillia (Crassispira) lepta (Edwards, 1861)

Crassispira lepta is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1] Fossils have been found in Eocene strata in the Paris Basin, France.

Subspecies: Crassispira lepta leptoides (de Boury, 1899) (synonym: Drillia (Crassispira) leptoides (de Boury, 1899)

References

  • Cossmann (M.), 1889 Catalogue illustré des coquilles fossiles de l'Éocène des environs de Paris (4ème fascicule). Annales de la Société royale Malacologique de Belgique, t. 24, p. 3-385
  • Le Renard (J.) & Pacaud (J.-M.), 1995 Révision des Mollusques paléogènes du Bassin de Paris. 2 - Liste des références primaires des espèces. Cossmanniana, t. 3, vol. 3, p. 65-132


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