Palaeotrochidae
| Palaeotrochidae | |
|---|---|
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| Floyda concentrica Hall & Whitfield, 1873 | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Neritimorpha |
| Superfamily: | † Knight, 1956 |
| Family: | † Knight, 1956[1] |
| Genera | |
| See text | |
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
- ^ Knight J. B. 1956. New families of Gastropoda. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 46(2): 41-42.