Optoturris edita

Optoturris edita is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the superfamily Conoidea, currently unassigned to a family. It is known to occur in the middle Miocene in fossil beds of Victoria, Australia.

Description

In the original description, Powell described the species as below:
The holotype measures in height, with a diameter of.

Taxonomy

Both the genus and species were first described by A. W. B. Powell in 1944 in the same paper. The holotype of the species is held by the Auckland War Memorial Museum. While part of the superfamily Conoidea, the genus was excluded from the family Turridae by Yu I Kantor et al. in 2024.

Distribution

The species is known to have lived in the Middle Miocene, found in the Gellibrand Formation of the Port Phillip Basin, at Grice's Creek/Gunyoung Creek, Victoria, Australia.