Pleurotomaria

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Pleurotomaria
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Pleurotomaria niloticiformes fossil at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Pleurotomariida
Superfamily: Pleurotomarioidea
Family: Pleurotomariidae
Genus: Pleurotomaria
Defrance, 1826
Type species
Trochus anglicusJ. Sowerby, 1818

Pleurotomaria is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pleurotomariidae. [2]

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Species

With current taxonomic changes the genus Pleurotomaria has been reserved exclusively for fossil species (denoted with † below).
Known fossil species of Pleurotomaria include: [3]

Species brought into synonymy

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Ferrari, M. (2024). "Early and Middle Jurassic marine gastropods from the Neuquén Basin, Argentina". Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina. 24 (1): 1–25. doi: 10.5710/PEAPA.13.11.2023.472 .
  2. Pleurotomaria Sowerby, 1821 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 3 April 2011.
  3. Paleobiology Database: Pleurotomaria
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 János Szabó (2017). "Gastropods of the Lower Jurassic Hierlatz Limestone Formation, part 3. New pleurotomarioideans from the fauna of Hierlatz Alpe (Hallstatt, Austria)" (PDF). Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica. 34: 9–48. doi:10.17111/FragmPalHung.2017.34.9.