Austrotoma echinata

Austrotoma echinata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Austrotoma
Species:
†A. echinata
Binomial name
†Austrotoma echinata

Austrotoma echinata is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudotomidae.

Description

The holotype has a shell length of 18.7 mm; its diameter 10.2mm.

Distribution

Fossils have been found in Lower Miocene strata at Southland, New Zealand.

References

  1. ↑ Austrotoma echinata A. W. B. Powell, 1942. 29 April 2026. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. 1 2 Powell, A.W.B. (1942). "The New Zealand recent and fossil Mollusca of the family Turridae with general notes on turrid nomenclature and systematics". Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 2: 74. Retrieved 29 April 2026. (source-attribution}}