Raphitoma antonjanseni

Raphitoma antonjanseni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Raphitomidae
Genus:	Raphitoma
Species:	R. antonjanseni
Binomial name
	Raphitoma antonjanseni; Marquet, 1998

Raphitoma antonjanseni is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Raphitomidae.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell reaches a length of 16 mm.

Fossils of this extinct marine species were found in Pliocene strata near Antwerp, Belgium.

^ Marquet, Robert, and Frank Wesselingh. "Over de slakken van het Antwerpse Plioceen." Afzettingen 19.3 (1998): 69-70.

Marquet, R. 1998. The Pliocene turrid Gastropods of Belgium. Part 2; Conidae (genera Asthenotoma, Comarmondia, Cytharella, Mangelia, Lusitanops, Raphitoma and Philbertia). Bulletin de ITnstitut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 68: 263–287.

Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.Error: "Q85795911" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.

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