Kingdom Animalia Family Harpagodidae Rank Genus | Class Gastropoda Phylum Mollusca Order Caenogastropoda | |
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Similar Tylostomatidae, Ampullina, Aporrhaidae, Pseudomelania, Nerinea | ||
Harpagodes is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Harpagodidae.
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Selected species
These are some of the species within the genus Harpagodes.
Description
"Shell obconic or ovate-conoid, with the spire moderately elevated, the canal produced into a long boldly recurved towards the left, and the labrum (...) spiniform digitations. Whorls convex or flat between the angle and the suture, spirally ribbed, with larger rib-like angular, median, and anterior fascioles (and sometimes post-angular), each emitting long spiniform digitations; and with a sutural canaliculate digitation accumbent on the spire, continued and recurved backwards." (Original description of Harpagodes by Gill, 1870).
Distribution
Fossils of these snails have been found in the Cretaceous rocks of Austria, Egypt, France, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, Yemen and in the Jurassic rocks of Argentina, Ethiopia, Israel, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania and Tunisia.