Coreospiridae
| Coreospiridae Temporal range: Early Cambrian
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| Latouchella costata, reconstructed as a snail | |
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| Family: | Coreospiridae Knight, 1947
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Archaeospiridae Yu, 1979 | |
Coreospiridae is an extinct family of Paleozoic molluscs of uncertain position taxonomically. They might be snails (Gastropoda), Helcionelloida, or they might be Monoplacophora.
2005 taxonomy[edit]
The taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005[1] categorizes Coreospiridae in the superfamily Scenelloidea within the Paleozoic molluscs of uncertain systematic position.
2006–2007 taxonomy[edit]
According to P. Yu. Parkhaev, the family Coreospiridae is in the family Helcionelloidea (Wenz, 1938) in the order Helcionelliformes (Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975) within the subclass Archaeobranchia (Parkhaev, 2001) in the class Helcionelloida (Peel, 1991).
Genera[edit]
Genera in the family Coreospiridae include:
- Coreospira Saito, 1936 - type genus of the family Coreospiridae
- Latouchella
- Owenella Ulrich & Scofield, 1897
- Owenella antiquata (Whitfield, 1878) - synonym: Bellerophon antiquata Whitfield, 1878[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.); Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdes A. & Warén A. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology, 47(1-2). ConchBooks: Hackenheim, Germany. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997. 397 pp. http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/imis2/ref.php?refid=78278
- ^ Whitfield R. P. 1878. Preliminary descriptions of new species of fossils from the lower geological formations of Wisconsin. Annual Report of the Wisconsin Geological Survey for 1877:50-89.
- Knight, J. B. (1947). Some new Cambrian bellerophont gastropods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 106(17): 1−11, pls. 1−2
