Palaeotrochidae

Palaeotrochidae
Floyda concentrica Hall & Whitfield, 1873
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Neritimorpha
Superfamily: Palaeotrochoidea
Knight, 1956
Family: Palaeotrochidae
Knight, 1956[1]
Genera

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Palaeotrochidae is an extinct family of fossil snails, gastropod 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

  1. Knight J. B. 1956. New families of Gastropoda. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 46(2): 41-42.


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