abyssochrysoid
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Noun[edit]
abyssochrysoid (plural abyssochrysoids)
- Any sea snail of the superfamily Abyssochrysoidea.
- 2015 October 16, “Cenozoic Methane-Seep Faunas of the Caribbean Region”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- Two seep faunas are distinguished in Barbados: the late Eocene mudstone-hosted ‘Joes River fauna’ consists mainly of large lucinid bivalves and tall abyssochrysoid gastropods, and the early Miocene carbonate-hosted ‘Bath Cliffs fauna’ containing the vesicomyid Pleurophopsis, the mytilid Bathymodiolus and small gastropods.