''Unedogemmula sondeiana'' is an extinct

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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

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mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...

in the

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Turridae Turridae is a taxonomic family name for a number of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. MolluscaBase (2018). Turridae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 (1838). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Specie ...

, the turrids. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Unedogemmula sondeiana (K. Martin, 1895) †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1320752 on 2023-01-08

Description

Distribution

This extinct marine species was found in

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, Indonesia.

References

K. Martin, DDie fossilien von Java auf grund einer sammlung von Dr. R.D.M. Verbeek und von anderen; Geol. Reichs Mus., Meiden I p.35

External links

A.W.B. Powell, The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 1. The subfamily Turrinae; Indo-Pacific Mollusca I
Unedogemmula, sondeiana
Gastropods described in 1895 {{paleo-gastropod-stub