Knefastia chira
| Knefastia chira | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Knefastia |
| Species: | K. chira
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| Binomial name | |
| Knefastia chira A.A. Olsson, 1931
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Knefastia chira is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]
Description
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Distribution
[edit]This extinct marine species was found in Oligocene strata in northern Peru; age range 37.2 to 33.9 Ma.
References
[edit]- ^ "WMSD – Worldwide Mollusc Species Database – Knefastia chira". bagniliggia.it. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
- Olsson, Axel Adolf (1931). "Contributions to the Tertiary paleontology of northern Peru: Part 4, the Peruvian Oligocene". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 17: 99–264.
External links
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