Teretia anceps
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| Teretia anceps | |
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| Shell of Teretia anceps (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Raphitomidae |
| Genus: | Teretia |
| Species: | T. anceps |
| Binomial name | |
| Teretia anceps (Eichwald, 1830) | |
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Teretia anceps is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
The length of the shell reaches 11.5 mm, its diameter 4 mm.
Distribution
Fossils of this marine species were found in Upper Pliocene strata in Alpes-Maritimes, France and in Italy; also in Middle Miocene strata in Poland.
