Ecphora is the common name for a group of extinct predatory marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the rocks snails or murexes. The common name is based on the first officially described genus, Ecphora. The entire lineage of these ocenebrinid murexes are descended from the Eocene murex, Tritonopsis. Ecphoras are indigenous to the North...
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[genus] Ecphora is a genus of extinct predatory ocenebrinid murexes indigenous to the North American Eastern Seaboard from Miocene until their extinction during the Pliocene. The common name for this genus and a group of related genera is `ecphora`(s). == Etymology == The name `Ecphora` is Greek, meaning `bearing out.` The word was original...
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