Palaeotrochidae

Palaeotrochidae
Floyda concentricaHall & Whitfield, 1873
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	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.