Isospiridae

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Isospiridae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
Family:
Isospiridae

, 1964[1]

Isospiridae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, Paleozoic gastropod mollusks.[2]

This family is unassigned to superfamily. This family has no subfamilies according to the taxonomy by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005). It is classified as "Basal taxa that are certainly Gastropoda" by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).[2]

Genera[]

  • Koken, 1897 - type genus of the family Isospiridae. Species include:[3]
    • Koken, 1897
    • Cowper Reed, 1921
    • Perner, 1903
    • Koken & Perner, 1925
    • Öpik, 1930
    • Wängberg-Eriksson, 1964 - synonym: Isospira reticulata

Taxonomy[]

Peter J. Wagner consider Isospiridae as synonym of within Tergomya,[4][5] The Paleobiology Database has become adatapted to[5] this unpublished opinion by Wagner. This alternate taxonomy is as: Tergomya, Cyrtonellida, .[5]

References[]

  1. ^ (1964). "Isospira reticulata n. sp. from the Upper Ordovician Boda Limestone, Sweden". Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholm Förhandlingar 86(3): 229-237.
  2. ^ a b Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
  3. ^ "Isospira". The Paleobiology Database, accessed 26 February 2010.
  4. ^ Wagner P. J. (2008). "Paleozoic Gastropod, Monoplacophoran and Rostroconch Database". [1][permanent dead link]
  5. ^ a b c "Cyrtonellidae" The Paleobiology Database. Accessed 26 February 2010.
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