Boreocomitas

Boreocomitas is a genus of extinct sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.

Boreocomitas
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	†Boreocomitas Hickman, 1976
Species
See text
Synonyms
† Comitas (Boreocomitas) Hickman, 1976 † (original rank)

Species

Species within the genus Boreocomitas include:

• † Boreocomitas brevior (Koenen, 1885)
• † Boreocomitas inouei Amano, Hryniewicz & R. G. Jenkins, 2018
• † Boreocomitas oregonensis (Hickman, 1976)

References

• Kazutaka Amano & Krzysztof Hryniewicz &Robert G Jenkins, A newly discovered Paleocene species of Boreocomitas (Gastropoda: Pseudomelatomidae) from eastern Hokkaido, Japan, with implications for the biogeography of the Paleocene Bering Strait; Nautilus 2018

External links

• Hickman C.S. (1976). Bathyal gastropods of the family Turridae in the early Oligocene Keasey Formation in Oregon, with a review of some deep-water genera in the Paleogene of the eastern Pacific. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 70(292): 1-119