Cryoturris aptera
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Cryoturris
Species:	C. aptera
Binomial name
Cryoturris aptera Woodring, 1928
Synonyms
† Kurtziella (Cryoturris) apteraWoodring 1928

Cryoturris aptera is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae. ^[1]

Contents

• Description
• Distribution
• References

Description

The length of the shell attains 11.4 mm, its diameter 3.9 mm.

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Distribution

This extinct marine species has been found in Pliocene strata of the Bowden Formation, Jamaica; age range: 3.6 to 2.588 Ma.

References

• W. P. Woodring. 1928. Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results . Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies
• A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.