Metacerithiidae

Metacerithiidae
Temporal range: 145.5–55.8 Ma

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Metacerithium balticum fossil at the Geological Museum, Copenhagen.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Metacerithiidae
Cossmann, 1906

Metacerithiidae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cerithioidea.[2]

According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Metacerithiidae has no subfamilies.

Genera

Genera within the family Metacerithiidae include:

References

  1. "†family Metacerithiidae Cossmann 1906 (snail)". Fossilworks, accessed 14 July 2016.
  2. Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1-2).
  3. Cossmann (1906). Essais Paléoconch. 7: 54.
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