Archinacellidae

Archinacellidae
Temporal range: Middle Ordovician–Late Ordovician

Middle Ordovician - Late Ordovician (range for the genus Archinacella)[1]

1865 drawing of Archinacella instabilis by Elkanah Billings.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda or Monoplacophora
Superfamily: Archinacelloidea
Family: Archinacellidae
Knight, 1952[2]
Genera

see text.

Archinacellidae is an extinct family of paleozoic molluscs of uncertain position (Gastropoda or Monoplacophora).

Description

These are cap-shaped fossil shells.

Taxonomy

The taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005[3] categorizes Archinacellidae in the superfamilia Archinacelloidea within the Paleozoic molluscs of uncertain systematic position. This family has no subfamilies.

Genera

Genera in the family Archinacellidae include:

References

  1. Rohr D.M., Boyce W.D. & Measures E.A. 2008. THE MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN MOLLUSC ARCHINACELLA FROM THE TABLE POINT FORMATION (TABLE HEAD GROUP), WESTERN NEWFOUNDLAND. Current Research (2008) Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Natural Resources Geological Survey, Report 08-1, pages 93–99.
  2. Knight J. B. (29 October) 1952. Primitive fossil gastropods and their bearing on gastropod classification. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 117(13): 56 pp., plates 1-2, page 47.
  3. Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.); Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdes A. & Warén A. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology, 47(1-2). ConchBooks: Hackenheim, Germany. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997. 397 pp. http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/imis2/ref.php?refid=78278
  4. Ulrich E. O. & Scofield W. H. 1897. The Lower Silurian Gastropoda of Minnesota. In: Ulrich E. O., Scofield W. H., Clarke J. M. & Winchell N. H. The Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, volume 3(2), Harrison and Smith, Minneapolis, 48 plates. Pages 813-1081, plates 61-82. Archinacella in on page 821.
  5. Billings E. 1865. Palaeozoic Fossils. Volume I. Containing descriptions and figures of new or little known species of organic remains from the Silurian rocks, 1861–1865. Dawson Brothers, Montreal. Geological Survey of Canada, Separate Report, 426 pp. page 251.
  6. 1 2 Horný R. J. 2000. Barrandicellopsis, a new Ordovician archinacelloid genus (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Věstník Českého geologického ústavu 75, 2.

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