Turris burroensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.Fossilworks: Turris burroensis
Taxonomy Turris burroensis was described as a new species by the paleontologist Richard Newman Nelson in 1925, in his monograph "A contribution to the paleontology of the Martinez Eocene of California", published in the University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences; the species was described on page 426 and figured on plate 57.
Description
Measurements of the shell: 13.5 x 5.8 mm. Distribution Fossils of this marine species were found in Eocene strata in California, USA.
References
Kooser, Marilyn Ann. Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the San Francisquito Formation, Transverse Ranges, California. University of California, Riverside, 1980.
External links Mineralienatlas - Fossilienatlas: Turris burroensis