Promurex
| Promurex Temporal range: Miocene - Recent | |
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| Fossil shell of Murex spinicosta from Pliocene of Italy | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Murex |
| Subgenus: | Promurex Ponder and Vokes 1988 |
Promurex is a subgenus of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the rock snails or murex snails.[1] [1]
Extant and extinct species
Species within this subgenus include:
- Murex antelmei Viader, 1938 [1]
- Murex protocrassus Houart, 1990 [1]
- Murex spinicosta Bronn 1831 † (extinct) [2]
Murex spinicosta lived in the Pliocene of Spain and Italy and in the Miocene of Denmark and Gernany, from 11.608 to 2.588 Ma.[2]
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