Nerinea

Nerinea
Temporal range: Jurassic–Cretaceous
Fossil shell of Nerinea from Italy
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): Heterobranchia
informal group Lower Heterobranchia
Superfamily: Nerineoidea
Family: Nerineidae
Genus: †Nerinea

†Nerinea is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Heterobranchia.

Fossil record

This genus is present from the Jurassic to the Cretaceous periods.[2] Fossils are known from various localities of Europe, Africa, North America, South America, China and New Zealand.[3]

Species

Species in the genus Nerinea include:[4]

  • Nerinea desvoidyi D'Orbigny 1921[3]
  • Nerinea gachupinae Alencaster 1977[3]
  • Nerinea higoensis Shikama & Yui, 1973
  • Nerinea koikensis Shikama & Yui, 1973
  • Nerinea naumanni Sugiyama & Asao, 1942
  • Nerinea rigida Nagao, 1934
  • Nerinea schickii - from Early Cretaceous, Albian - Syria[5]
  • Nerinea shiidai Shikama & Yui, 1973
  • Nerinea somaliensis Weir 1925[3]
  • Nerinea somensis Shikama & Yui, 1973
  • Nerinea sugiyamai Shikama & Yui, 1942
  • Nerinea suprjurensis Voltz from Middle Jurassic, Upper Oolite. Porrentruy, Switzerland.[5]
  • Nerinea syriaca Conrad - from Early Cretaceous, Albian - Syria[5]

References

  1. ↑ Defrance (1824). Bull. univ. Sci. Nat.: 284; (1825). Dict. Sci. Nat. 34: 462.
  2. ↑ (in Czech) Pek I., Vašíček Z., Roček Z., Hajn. V. & Mikuláš R.: Základy zoopaleontologie. Olomouc, 1996. 264 pp., ISBN 80-7067-599-3.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Paleobiology Database
  4. ↑ Itaru HAYAMI & Tomoki KASE 1977. A SYSTEMATIC SURVEY OF THE PALEOZOIC AND MESOZOIC GASTROPODA AND PALEOZOIC BIVALVIA FROM JAPAN. PART I. PALEOZOIC AND MESOZOIC GASTROPODA. Bulletin No.13. The University Museum, The University of Tokyo, Tokio.
  5. 1 2 3 Yale Peabody Museum


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