''Boreocomitas oregonensis'' is an extinct
species
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of
sea snail, a
marine gastropod mollusc in the
family
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Pseudomelatomidae
Pseudomelatomidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropods included in the superfamily Conoidea (previously Conacea) and part of the Neogastropoda ( Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
In 1995 Kantor elevated the subfamily Pseudomelatomina ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Boreocomitas oregonensis (Hickman, 1976) †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1317398 on 2021-03-27]
Distribution
Fossils of this marine species were found in
Oligocene strata in
Oregon
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, USA.
References
External links
Hickman C.S. (1976). Bathyal gastropods of the family Turridae in the early Oligocene Keasey Formation in Oregon, with a review of some deep-water genera in the Paleogene of the eastern Pacific. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 70(292): 1-119
Pseudomelatomidae
Oligocene gastropods
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