Palaeotrochidae
Appearance
Palaeotrochidae | |
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Floyda concentrica Hall & Whitfield, 1873 | |
Scientific classification | |
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(unranked): | clade Neritimorpha
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Superfamily: | †Palaeotrochoidea Knight, 1956
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Family: | †Palaeotrochidae |
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Palaeotrochidae is an extinct family of fossil snails, gastropod mollusks in the clade Neritimorpha according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
This is the only family in the superfamily Palaeotrochoidea. This family has no subfamilies.
Genera
Genera within the family Paleotrochidae include:
- Palaeotrochus Hall, 1879 - type genus
- Floyda Webster, 1905
- Turbonopsis Grabau and Shimer 1909
- Westerna Webster, 1905
- Westwooditrochus Cook 1998
References
- ^ Knight J. B. 1956. New families of Gastropoda. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 46(2): 41-42.