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

Urosalpinx cymioides
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Ocenebrinae
Genus: Urosalpinx
Species:
U. cymioides
Binomial name
Urosalpinx cymioides
H.A. Pilsbry & A.A. Olsson, 1941

Description

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Distribution

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Fossils were found in Pliocene and Pleistocene strata of Ecuador.

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