Metacerithiidae

Metacerithiidae Temporal range: 145.5–55.8  Ma [1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Metacerithium balticum fossil at the Geological Museum, Copenhagen.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Superfamily:	Campaniloidea
Family:	Metacerithiidae Cossmann, 1906
Synonyms
† Terebrellidae Delpey, 1941 (invalid: type genus a junior homonym )

Metacerithiidae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Campaniloidea. ^[2]

According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Metacerithiidae has no subfamilies.

Genera

Genera within the family Metacerithiidae include:

• † Diatrypesis Tomlin, 1929
• † Metacerithium Cossmann, 1906 ^[3] - the type genus
• † Nerineopsis Cossmann, 1906

Synonyms

• † TerebrellaAndreae, 1887 : synonym of † Diatrypesis Tomlin, 1929 (invalid: junior homonym of Terebrella Maltzan, 1887; Trypetes Tomlin, 1929, is a replacement name)
• † TrypetesTomlin, 1929 : synonym of † Diatrypesis Tomlin, 1929 (invalid: junior homonym of Trypetes Schenck, 1859; Diatrypesis is a replacement name)

References

1. "†family Metacerithiidae Cossmann 1906 (snail)". Fossilworks, accessed 14 July 2016.
2. Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
3. Cossmann (1906). Essais Paléoconch.7: 54.

• Delpey, G. (1941). Gastéropodes marins. Paléontologie, stratigraphie. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France. new ser., 19(3−4), Mémoire 43: 144 pp., 28 pls.

External links

• Cossmann, M. (1906). Essais de paléoconchologie comparée, Septième livraison. Paris, The author and de Rudeval. 261 pp., 14 pls.