†Zygopleura is an

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genus of

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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 ...

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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 ...

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s in the family

Zygopleuridae †Zygopleuridae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Caenogastropoda Caenogastropoda is a taxonomic clade, a large diverse group which are mostly sea snails and other marine gastropod mollusks, bu ...

Fossil record

These extinct sea snails lived from 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 ...

to the

Paleocene The Paleocene, ( ) or Palaeocene, is a geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 66 to 56 mya (unit), million years ago (mya). It is the first epoch of the Paleogene Period (geology), Period in the modern Cenozoic Era (geology), E ...

( Age range: 326.4 to 48.6 million years ago), The fossils were found in Turkey, Chile, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Tanzania, Tunisia, the United Kingdom, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Colombia, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Oman, Peru, Slovakia, Switzerland, Tunisia and United States.

Species

Species within this genus include:Paleobiology Database
/ref> * † ''Zygopleura angulata'' Wanner 1922 * † ''Zygopleura arctecostata'' Münster 1841†Zygopleura benoisti Cossmann 1907 * † ''Zygopleura brevis'' M'Coy 184 * † ''Zygopleura brevis grossicostta'' Longstaff 1933 * † ''Zygopleura dubia'' Wanner 1922 * † ''Zygopleura dubia'' Gemmellaro 1911 * † ''Zygopleura etalensis'' Piette 1856 * † ''Zygopleura geniculata'' Wanner 1922 * † ''Zygopleura goldbergi'' Reiner 1968 * † ''Zygopleura granietzensis'' Ahlburg 1906 * † ''Zygopleura haasi'' Batten and Stokes 1986 * † ''Zygopleura hybrida'' Münster 1841 * † ''Zygopleura nitida'' Wanner 1922 * † ''Zygopleura numidis'' Termier and Termier 1977 * † ''Zygopleura porulosa'' Terquem 1855 * † ''Zygopleura simplex'' Wanner 1922 * † ''Zygopleura swalloviana'' Shumard 1859 * † ''Zygopleura tunisiensis'' Cox 1969 * † ''Zygopleura verrucosa'' Terquem 1855 * † ''Zygopleura walmstedti'' Klipstein 1843 * † ''Zygopleura variabilis'' (Zapfe, 1962) * † ''Zygopleura yunnanensis'' Pan 1977

References

Zygopleuridae Prehistoric gastropods {{Paleo-gastropod-stub