Coreospiridae

Coreospiridae Temporal range: Early Cambrian
Latouchella costata, reconstructed as a snail
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda or Monoplacophora
Superfamily:	Scenelloidea
Family:	Coreospiridae Knight, 1947
genera
see text.
Synonyms
Archaeospiridae Yu, 1979 Yangtzespirinae Yu, 1984 Latouchellidae Golikov & Starobogatov, 1989

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

2005 taxonomy

The taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005^[1] 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^[2]

References

1. 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
2. Whitfield R. P. 1878. Preliminary descriptions of new species of fossils from the lower geological formations of Wisconsin. Annual Report of the Wisconsin Geological Survey for 1877:50-89.