Inquisitor lanceolatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Inquisitor
Species:	I. lanceolatus
Binomial name
Inquisitor lanceolatus (L.H. Hupé, 1854 )
Synonyms
† Pleurotoma lanceolataHupé, 1854

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

Contents

• Description
• Distribution
• References
• External links

Description

The length of the shell attains 27.5 mm.

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Distribution

This extinct marine species was found in Miocene strata of the Navidad Formation, Central Chile.

References

• Hupé, H. 1854. Malacología y conquiliología. In C. Gay (Ed.): Historia física y política de Chile. Vol. 8 und Atlas (Zoológica). Maulde et Renou, Paris, 449 S.

External links

• Nielsen, Sven N. (2003). Die marinen Gastropoden (exklusive Heterostropha) aus dem Miozän von Zentralchile (PDF) (Doctoral thesis) (in German). University of Hamburg.

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