Creseis roesti
| Creseis roesti Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Euopisthobranchia |
| Order: | Pteropoda |
| Family: | Creseidae |
| Genus: | Creseis |
| Species: | †C. roesti
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| Binomial name | |
| †Creseis roesti A. W. Janssen, 2010
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Creseis roesti is a species of sea butterfly. It feeds on holoplanktonic organisms. [1]
The species' fossils have been observed in the south of France and Catalonia, in the Caribbean, and near the Korean Peninsula. Its fossilized state and taphonomy has contained aragonite.[2]
References
- ^ Bruno Cahuzac; Arie W. Janssen. "Eocene to Miocene holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda) of the Aquitaine Basin, southwest France" (PDF). Scripta Geologica. 141: 1–193.
- ^ "Mindat.org". www.mindat.org. Retrieved 7 January 2026.