Palaeotrochidae is an
extinct
Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...
family of fossil
snails,
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 ...
mollusks in the clade
Neritimorpha according to the
taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
This is the only family in the superfamily Palaeotrochoidea. This family has no subfamilies.
Genera
Genera within the family Paleotrochidae include:
* ''
Palaeotrochus'' Hall, 1879 -
type genus
* ''
Floyda'' Webster, 1905
* ''
Turbonopsis'' Grabau and Shimer 1909
* ''
Westerna'' Webster, 1905
* ''
Westwooditrochus'' Cook 1998
References
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