Urosalpinx cossmanni is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Urosalpinx cossmanni
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Ocenebrinae
Genus: Urosalpinx
Species:
U. cossmanni
Binomial name
Urosalpinx cossmanni
Ortmann 1900
Synonyms

Odontostomia leucostomoides Cossmann, non Sowerby

Description

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Distribution

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Fossils were found in Miocene and Oligocene strata of Argentina (age range: 23.03 to 15.97 Ma).

References

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  • Ortmann, A. (1900). Synopsis of the Collections of Invertebrate fossils made by the Princeton Expedition to Southern Patagonia. American Journal of Science, series 4, 10: 368-381
  • A. Gazdzicki and H. Pugaczewska. 1984. Biota of the "Pecten Conglomerate" (Polenez Cove Formation, Pliocene) of King George Island (South Shetland Islands, Antarctica). Studia Geologica Polonica 79:59-120
  • Claudia Julia del Río, Tertiary Marine Molluscan Assemblages of Eastern Patagonia (Argentina): A Biostratigraphic Analysis; Journal of Paleontology Vol. 78, No. 6 (Nov., 2004), pp. 1097-1122
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