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Cirridae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Rank
  
Family

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
† Porcellioidea

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Cirridae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Porcellioidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Contents

These snails date from the Mesozoic era, and are sinistral in their shell-coiling.

Taxonomy

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

  • Cirrinae Cossmann, 1916
  • Platyacrinae Wenz, 1938 - synonym: Hesperocirrinae O. Haas, 1953
  • Cassianocirrinae Bandel, 1993

    • Genera and species

    Genera and species within the family Cirridae include:

  • Alaskacirrus Frýda & Blodgett, 1998 - from the Devonian of west-central Alaska
  • Alaskacirrus bandeli Frýda & Blodgett, 1998

    • References

    Cirridae Wikipedia
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