Crassispira plateaui

Crassispira plateaui
	Shells of Crassispira plateaui (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Crassispira
Species:	C. plateaui
Binomial name
	Crassispira plateaui; (Cossmann, 1889)
Synonyms
	† Drillia plateaui Cossmann, 1889 ; † Drillia (Tripia) plateaui (Cossmann, 1889);

Crassispira plateaui is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 7 mm.

Fossils have been found in Eocene strata in the Paris Basin, France.

Cossmann (M.) & Pissarro (G.), 1913 Iconographie complète des coquilles fossiles de l'Éocène des environs de Paris, t. 2, p. pl. 46-65
Le Renard (J.) & Pacaud (J.-M.), 1995 Révision des Mollusques paléogènes du Bassin de Paris. 2 - Liste des références primaires des espèces. Cossmanniana, t. 3, vol. 3, p. 65-132

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