Promurex is a subgenus of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the rock snails or murex snails.[2]

Extant and extinct species

Species within this subgenus include:

Murex spinicosta lived in the Pliocene of Spain and Italy and in the Miocene of Denmark and Germany, from 11.608 to 2.588 Ma.[3]

References

  1. ^ Ponder and Vokes, 1988 A revision of the Indo-West Pacific fossil and Recent species of Murex s.s. and Haustellum (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae) Records of the Australian MuseumSupplement. Volume:8:1-160 DOI:10.3853/j.0812-7387.8.1988.96.
  2. ^ a b c WoRMS
  3. ^ a b Fossilworks


Allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promurex
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