Thatcheria liratula is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.

Description

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species were found in Lower Pliocene strata in New Zealand

Thatcheria liratula

References

Powell, A. W. B. 1942. The New Zealand Recent and fossil Mollusca of the family Turridae, with general notes on Turrid nomenclature and systematics. Bull. Auckland Inst., 2 : 1–188, pis. 1–14. Maxwell, P.A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. pp 232–254 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch

Thatcheria liratula

External links

A.J. Charig, The Gastropod Genus Thatcheria and its Relationships; Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), vol. 7 # 9 (1963)

Thatcheria liratula

liratula

Gastropods described in 1942

Gastropods of New Zealand