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Asperdaphne contigua

Asperdaphne contigua is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc, in the family Raphitomidae. Fossils of the species date to the middle Miocene strata of the Port Phillip Basin of Victoria, Australia.

Description

In the original description, Powell described the species as follows:

The holotype of the species has a height of , and a diameter of .

Taxonomy

The species was first described by A. W. B. Powell in 1944. In 2011, A. G. Beu recombined the species as Pleurotomella contigua, a change not accepted by Thomas A. Darragh (2024) or the World Register of Marine Species. The holotype was collected prior to 1944 from the Altona Bay brown coal shafts, Victoria, Australia. It is held by the Auckland War Memorial Museum.

Distribution

This extinct marine species occurs in middle Miocene strata of the Port Phillip Basin of Victoria, Australia, including the Gellibrand Formation.

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