''Teretia monterosatoi'' is an extinct

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, a marine

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in the

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.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Teretia monterosatoi (Cipolla, 1914) †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=832500 on 2020-02-26

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species were found in

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, Italy; also in Pliocene strata at the

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, France.

References

* Cipolla, F. (1914) Le Pleurotomidi del Pliocene di Altavilla (Palermo). Palaeontographia Italica, 20, 105–181, pls. 1(12)–3(14) page(s): 160, pl. 14 fig. 6 a-b * Brunetti, M.; Vecchi, G. (2003). Sul ritrovamento di Teretia elengatissima (Foresti, 1868) in terreni pliocenici dell'Emilia e della Toscana. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana. 42: 49–57. * Chirli (C.) & Richard (C.), 2008 ''Les Mollusques plaisanciens de la Côte d’Azur'', p. 1-128

External links

Morassi M. & Bonfitto A. (2015). ''New Indo-Pacific species of the genus Teretia Norman, 1888 (Gastropoda: Raphitomidae).'' Zootaxa. 3911(4): 560-570
* monterosatoi Gastropods described in 1914 {{Raphitomidae-stub