Turris kaffraria explained

Turris kaffraria is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.^[1]

Owing to its columellar folds, the authors Steffen Kiel and Klaus Bandel state that it certainly does not belong in Turris.^[2]

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species were found in Cretaceous strata in Cameroon (age range: 89.3 to 85.8 Ma)

References

• Woods, H., 1906. The Cretaceous fauna of Pondoland. Ann. SA Mus. 4, 275–350.
• L. Riedel. 1933. Die Oberkreide vom Mungofluß in Kamerun und ihre Fauna. Beiträge zur Geologischen Erforschung der Deutschen Schutzgebiete 16:1-154

Notes and References

1. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=418422 Fossilworks: Turris kaffraria
2. New taxonomic data for the gastropod fauna of the Umzamba Formation (Santonian–Campanian, South Africa) based on newly collected material . Cretaceous Research . Steffen . Kiel . 2003 . 24 . 4 . 449–475 . 10.1016/S0195-6671(03)00055-7 .