Cirridae

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Cirridae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:
† Porcellioidea
Family:
† Cirridae

Cossmann, 1916

Cirridae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Porcellioidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Contents

These snails date from the Mesozoic era, and are sinistral in their shell-coiling. [1]

Taxonomy

This family consists of three following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

Genera and species

Genera and species within the family Cirridae include:

References

  1. ↑ "Nacre in Late Cretaceous Sensuitrochus Ferreri-Implications for the Taxonomic Affinities of the Cirridae (Gastropoda) – Journal of Paleontology". Archived from the original on 2 November 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  2. 1 2 Frýda J. & Blodgett R. B. (March 1998). "Two new cirroidean genera (Vetigastropoda, Archaeogastropoda) from the Emsian (Late Early Devonian) of Alaska with notes on the early phylogeny of Cirroidea". Journal of Paleontology72(2): 265–273. abstract


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