| Pleurotomaria Temporal range: [1] | |
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| Pleurotomaria niloticiformes fossil at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen | |
| Scientific classification | |
| 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]
With current taxonomic changes the genus Pleurotomaria has been reserved exclusively for fossil species (denoted with † below).
Known fossil species of Pleurotomaria include: [3]