Palaeotrochidae

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Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda		Phylum Mollusca Rank Family

Superfamily †PalaeotrochoideaKnight, 1956 People also search for Symmetrocapulidae, Dawsonellidae

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

Palaeotrochidae Wikipedia

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