Makiyamaia decorata
Appearance
Makiyamaia decorata | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Clavatulidae |
Genus: | Makiyamaia |
Species: | M. decorata
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Binomial name | |
Makiyamaia decorata Oleinik 1991
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Makiyamaia decorata is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Clavatulidae.[1]
Distribution
[edit]Fossils of this species were found in Eocene deposits in the Lower Snatolskaya Formation, Russia (age range 48.6 to 37.2 Ma).
References
[edit]- A. E. Oleinik and L. Marincovich. 2003. Biotic response to the Eocene-Oligocene Transition: Gastropod assemblages in the High-Latitude North Pacific. From Greenhouse to Icehouse. The Marine Eocene-Oligocene transition. 36–56