Coreospiridae is an extinct
family
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of
Paleozoic
The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.
The name ''Paleozoic'' ( ;) was coined by the British geologist Adam Sedgwick in 1838
by combining the Greek words ''palaiós'' (, "old") and ' ...
molluscs of uncertain position
taxonomically. They might be
snail
A snail is, in loose terms, a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name ''snail'' is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class G ...
s (
Gastropoda),
Helcionelloida, or they might be
Monoplacophora.
2005 taxonomy
The
taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005[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. . ISSN 0076-2997. 397 pp. http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/imis2/ref.php?refid=78278] categorizes Coreospiridae in the superfamily
Scenelloidea
Scenelloidea is an extinct superfamily of paleozoic molluscs of uncertain position ( Gastropoda, Helcionelloida, or Monoplacophora).
Families
Based on the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) families in the Scenelloidea i ...
within the
Paleozoic molluscs of uncertain systematic position.
2006–2007 taxonomy
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
Genera in the family Coreospiridae include:
* ''
Coreospira'' Saito, 1936 -
type genus
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Zoological nomenclature
According to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, "The name-bearing type of a nominal ...
of the family Coreospiridae
* ''
Latouchella
''Latouchella'' is an extinct genus of marine invertebrate animal, that is considered to be a mollusk and which may be a sea snail, a gastropod. It is a helcionellid from the Tommotian epoch of what is now Siberia. Its tightly coiled, spiral ...
''
* ''
Owenella'' Ulrich & Scofield, 1897
** ''
Owenella antiquata'' (Whitfield, 1878) - synonym: ''Bellerophon antiquata'' Whitfield, 1878
[ 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.]
References
* Knight, J. B. (1947). ''Some new Cambrian bellerophont gastropods.'' Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 106(17): 1−11, pls. 1−2
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