Leucosyrinx nicoya is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Leucosyrinx |
| Species: | L. nicoya
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| Binomial name | |
| Leucosyrinx nicoya Olsson 1942
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Distribution
editFossils of this marine species were found in Pliocene strata of the Charco Azul Formation of Costa Rica; age range: 5.332 to 2.588 Ma.
References
edit- Olsson, Axel Adolf. "Tertiary and Quaternary fossils from the Burica Peninsula of Panama and Costa Rica." (1942): 153–258.
- W. P. Woodring. 1970. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoining parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(D):299-452
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