Boreocomitas
Extinct genus of gastropods
| Boreocomitas | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | †Boreocomitas Hickman, 1976 |
| Species | |
| See text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
| † Comitas (Boreocomitas) Hickman, 1976 † (original rank) | |
Boreocomitas is a genus of extinct sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]
Species
Species within the genus Boreocomitas include:
- † Boreocomitas brevior (Koenen, 1885)
- † Boreocomitas inouei Amano, Hryniewicz & R. G. Jenkins, 2018
- † Boreocomitas oregonensis (Hickman, 1976)
References
- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Boreocomitas Hickman, 1976 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1317372 on 2019-01-28
- Kazutaka Amano & Krzysztof Hryniewicz &Robert G Jenkins, A newly discovered Paleocene species of Boreocomitas (Gastropoda: Pseudomelatomidae) from eastern Hokkaido, Japan, with implications for the biogeography of the Paleocene Bering Strait; Nautilus 2018
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
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