''Crassispira dalabeensis'' 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

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 ...

, the turrids and allies.Fossilworks: ''Drillia (Crassispira) dalabeensis''
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Description

Distribution

Fossils have been found in Miocene strata of

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...

; age range: 23.03 to 20.43 Ma

References

External links

E. Vredenburg. 1921. ''Comparative diagnoses of Pleurotomidae from the Tertiary formations of Burma''. Records of the Geological Survey of India 53:83-129
dalabeensis Gastropods described in 1921 {{paleo-gastropod-stub