Carinodrillia cymatoides

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Carinodrillia cymatoides
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Carinodrillia
Species:
C. cymatoides
Binomial name
Carinodrillia cymatoides
J. Gardner, 1938

Carinodrillia cymatoides is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]

J. Gardner was of the opinion that this species was a possible precursor of Compsodrillia eucosmia (W.H. Dall, 1889), a Recent species that she thought belonging to Carinodrillia.

Description[]

The length of the shell attains 16 mm, its diameter 5.5 mm.

Distribution[]

This extinct species occurs in Miocene strata of the Alum Bluff Formation, Florida, USA.

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