Sinuopeidae

Sinuopeidae
Sinuopea eminensis fossil, National Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
Family:
Sinuopeidae

Wenz, 1938[1]

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

This family is unassigned to superfamily. This family consists of three following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

  • Sinuopeinae Wenz, 1938
  • Platyschismatinae Knight, 1956[3]
  • Turbonellininae Knight, 1956[3]

References

  1. ^ (in German) Wenz W. A. 1938. Handbuch der Paläozoologie.
  2. ^ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
  3. ^ a b Knight J. B. 1956. New families of Gastropoda. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 46(2): 41-42.


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