Holopea

Holopea; Temporal range: Ordovician - Carboniferous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Holopea praestans from Czech Republic, at the National Museum (Prague)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Family:	†Holopeidae
Genus:	†Holopea; J. Hall, 1847
Synonyms
	Cirropsis Perner, 1903; Haplospira Koken, 1897; Litiopsis Salter, 1866; Staurospira Perner, 1907; Tortilla Perner, 1903

Holopea is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, Paleozoic gastropod mollusks in the family Holopeidae.

These molluscs were stationary epifaunal suspension feeders. They lived in the Paleozoic Era, Ordovician Period, upper Arenigian age (between 478.6 ± 1.7 and 471.8 ± 1.6 million years ago) to the Carboniferous period, lower Serpukhovian age (from 328.3 (± 1.6) Ma to 318.1 (± 1.3) mya).

Distribution

These fossil gastropods are found in: the Permian of China; the Devonian of Australia, Canada, United States; the Silurian of Australia, Canada, Russia, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States; the Ordovician of Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Iran, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, United States; Chazy of Canada; Arenig of Greenland.

References

^ J. Hall. 1847. Containing descriptions of the organic remains of the lower division of the New York system (equivalent of the Lower Silurian rocks of Europe). Paleontology of New York 1:1-338

Paleobiology Database
Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database

External links

This prehistoric gastropod article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[1] J. Hall. 1847. Containing descriptions of the organic remains of the lower division of the New York system (equivalent of the Lower Silurian rocks of Europe). Paleontology of New York 1:1-338

[1]

Distribution

See also

References

External links