''Bathytoma cataphracta'' is an extinct species of

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

, a marine

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusk in the family

Borsoniidae Borsoniidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.Bouchet, P. (2011). Borsoniidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.o ...

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Distribution

This extinct marine species was found in the Miocene of Denmark, Italy, Pakistan and in the

Oligocene The Oligocene ( ) is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present ( to ). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the ...

of Hungary

Description

References

* E. Vredenburg. 1925. ''Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Cephalopoda, Opisthobranchiata, Siphonostomata''. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 50(1):1-350 * W. Baluk. 2003. ''Middle Miocene (Badenian) gastropods from Korytnica, Poland; Part IV – Turridae''. Acta Geological Polonica 53(1):29-78 cataphracta Gastropods described in 1814 {{Borsoniidae-stub