''Holopea'' is an extinct

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of fossil

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

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 ' ...

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...

s in the family

Holopeidae †Holopeidae is an extinct family of paleozoic gastropod mollusks.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Holopeidae Cossmann, 1908 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails& ...

.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Holopea Hall, 1847 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1558321 on 2022-11-12 These molluscs were stationary epifaunal suspension feeders. They lived in the

Era, Ordovician Period, upper

Arenigian In geology, the Arenig (or Arenigian) is a time interval during the Ordovician period and also the suite of rocks which were deposited during this interval. History The term was first used by Adam Sedgwick in 1847 with reference to the "Arenig ...

age (between 478.6 ± 1.7 and 471.8 ± 1.6 million years ago) to the

Carboniferous The Carboniferous ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Permian Period, million years ago. The name ''Carbonifero ...

period, lower

Serpukhovian The Serpukhovian is in the ICS geologic timescale the uppermost stage or youngest age of the Mississippian, the lower subsystem of the Carboniferous. The Serpukhovian age lasted from Ma to Ma. It is preceded by the Visean and is followed b ...

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

* Pan, Y.-T. (1978). Gastropoda. In: Chengdu Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources (Ed.) Paleontological Atlas of Southwest China. Sichuan Volume 2. Geological Publishing House, Beijing, pp. 403–428

External links

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, Jac
Sepkoski's Online Genus Database
Holopeidae Ordovician gastropods Silurian gastropods Devonian gastropods Carboniferous gastropods Paleozoic animals of Asia Ordovician animals of Europe Fossils of the Czech Republic Letná Formation Early Ordovician first appearances Carboniferous extinctions Paleozoic life of Ontario Paleozoic life of Manitoba Paleozoic life of Nova Scotia Paleozoic life of Nunavut Paleozoic life of Quebec {{paleo-gastropod-stub

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