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Hindsiclava henekeni

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Hindsiclava henekeni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Hindsiclava
Species:
H. henekeni
Binomial name
Hindsiclava henekeni
(G. B. Sowerby I, 1850)
Synonyms
  • Conocardium abruptum Barrande, 1881
  • Crassispira (Crassispira) henekeni (G. B. Sowerby I, 1850)
  • Crassispira henekeni (G. B. Sowerby I, 1850)
  • Drillia henekeni (G. B. Sowerby I, 1850)
  • Pleurotoma henekeni G. B. Sowerby I, 1850 (original combination)
  • Pleurotoma henikeri (G. B. Sowerby I, 1850)
  • Turris (Surcula) henekeni (G. B. Sowerby I, 1850)

Hindsiclava henekeni is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]

Subspecies
  • Hindsiclava henekeni leptalea W. P. Woodring, 1970 [2]

Distribution

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Fossils of this marine species were found in Pliocene strata and in Miocene strata in the Caribbean area; age range: 15.97 to 3.6 Ma

References

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  1. ^ Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Pseudomelatomidae
  2. ^ W. P. Woodring. 1970. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoining parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(D):299–452
  • M. Barrios. 1960. Algunos moluscos del Terciario Medio de Colombia. Boletin Geologico 6(1-3):213–306
  • C. J. Maury. 1917. Santo Domingo type sections and fossils. Bulletins of American Paleontology 5(30):1–43
  • T. Oinomikado. 1939. Miocene Mollusca from the Neighbourhood of Cucurrupi, Department of Chocó, Colombia. Transactions of the Palaeontological Society of Japan 46:617-630
  • W. P. Woodring. 1928. Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results. Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies
  • B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva. 2010. Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy. Palaeontos 19:1–221
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