Turris pulchra
{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}
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|taxon = Turris pulchra
|image = Turris pulchra 001.jpg
|image_caption= Shell of Turris pulchra (holotype)
|authority = Dickerson 1915
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|synonyms= Hemipleurotoma pulchra Dickerson 1915
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Turris pulchra is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=385537 Fossilworks: Turris pulchra]
Description
Measurements of the shell: 20.0 mm x 6.5 mm.
(Original description) The fusiform shell contains nine whorls. The first four are turbo-form and smooth. The others are sharply angulated by a shoulder a third of whorl below the suture. They are decorated by twelve to fourteen subequal spiral lines which are slightly nodose where the fine sinuous axial ribs cross them. A beaded sutural collar occurs just below the indistinct suture. The aperture is elongate with its greatest width above, narrowing below into a slender siphonal canal. The outer lip is thin. The inner lip is slightly calloused.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3146067#page/81/mode/1up R. E. Dickerson. 1915. Fauna of the Type Tejon: Its relation to the Cowlitz Phase of the Tejon Group of Washington. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 5(3):33-98]
Distribution
Fossils of this marine species were found in Eocene strata in Oregon and Washington, USA (age range:40.4 to 37.2 Ma)
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