Promurex

Promurex Temporal range: Miocene - Recent PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Fossil shell of Murex spinicosta from Pliocene of Italy
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Murex
Subgenus:	Promurex Ponder and Vokes, 1988 [1]

Promurex is a subgenus of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the rock snails or murex snails.^{[2] [2]}

Extant and extinct species

Species within this subgenus include:

• Murex antelmei Viader, 1938 ^[2]
• Murex protocrassus Houart, 1990 ^[2]
• Murex spinicosta Bronn 1831 † (extinct) ^[3]

Murex spinicosta lived in the Pliocene of Spain and Italy and in the Miocene of Denmark and Gernany, from 11.608 to 2.588 Ma.^[3]

References

1. Ponder and Vokes, 1988 A revision of the Indo-West Pacific fossil and Recent species of Murex s.s. and Haustellum (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae) Records of the Australian MuseumSupplement. Volume:8:1-160 DOI:10.3853/j.0812-7387.8.1988.96.
2. WoRMS
3. Fossilworks