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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Neritoidea

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Neritidae

Rank
  
Genus

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Velates is an extinct genus of marine gastropod mollusks belonging to the family Neritidae.

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These snails lived from Paleocene to the Miocene (age range: from 58.7 to 11.608 million years ago). Fossil shells within this genus have been found all over the world.

Velates sivellibagno


Species

Species within this genus include:

  • †Velates balkanicus Bontscheff 1896
  • †Velates californicus Vokes 1935
  • †Velates perversus Gmelin 1791
  • †Velates rogeri Abbass 1967
  • †Velates rugatus Abbass 1967
  • †Velates tebanensis Abbass 1967
  • †Velates vizcainoensis Cushing Woods and Saul 1986
  • †Velates vokesi Cooke 1946

    • Description

    These snails had a heavy, oval shell reaching a length of about 30 millimetres (1.2 in). The earliest regular windings are visible at the top of the shell.

    References

    Velates Wikipedia
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