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Coreospiridae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Helcionelloida

Rank
  
Family

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Scenelloidea

Coreospiridae

Similar
  
Tremanotidae, Latouchella, Aldanellidae, Yochelcionella

Coreospiridae is an extinct family of Paleozoic molluscs of uncertain position taxonomically. They might be snails (Gastropoda), Helcionelloida, or they might be Monoplacophora.

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2005 taxonomy

The taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005 categorizes Coreospiridae in the superfamilia Scenelloidea within the Paleozoic molluscs of uncertain systematic position.

2006–2007 taxonomy

According to P. Yu. Parkhaev, the family Coreospiridae is in the family Helcionelloidea (Wenz, 1938) in the order Helcionelliformes (Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975) within the subclass Archaeobranchia (Parkhaev, 2001) in the class Helcionelloida (Peel, 1991).

Genera

Genera in the family Coreospiridae include:

  • Coreospira Saito, 1936 - type genus of the family Coreospiridae
  • Latouchella
  • Owenella Ulrich & Scofield, 1897
  • Owenella antiquata (Whitfield, 1878) - synonym: Bellerophon antiquata Whitfield, 1878
  • References

    Coreospiridae Wikipedia