Boreocomitas Explained

Boreocomitas is a genus of extinct sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Boreocomitas include:

• † Boreocomitas brevior (Koenen, 1885)
• † Boreocomitas inouei Amano, Hryniewicz & R. G. Jenkins, 2018
• † Boreocomitas oregonensis (Hickman, 1976)

References

• Kazutaka Amano & Krzysztof Hryniewicz &Robert G Jenkins, A newly discovered Paleocene species of Boreocomitas (Gastropoda: Pseudomelatomidae) from eastern Hokkaido, Japan, with implications for the biogeography of the Paleocene Bering Strait; Nautilus 2018

External links

• Hickman C.S. (1976). Bathyal gastropods of the family Turridae in the early Oligocene Keasey Formation in Oregon, with a review of some deep-water genera in the Paleogene of the eastern Pacific. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 70(292): 1-119

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase (2018). Boreocomitas Hickman, 1976 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1317372 on 2019-01-28