Isospiridae

Isospiridae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Family: Isospiridae
Wangberg-Eriksson, 1964[1]

Isospiridae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, Paleozoic gastropod mollusks.[2]

This family is unassigned to superfamily. This family has no subfamilies according to the taxonomy by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005). It is classified as "Basal taxa that are certainly Gastropoda" by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).[2]

Genera

Taxonomy

Peter J. Wagner consider Isospiridae as synonym of Cyrtonellidae within Tergomya,[4][5] The Paleobiology Database has become adatapted to[5] this unpublished opinion by Wagner. This alternate taxonomy is as: Tergomya, Cyrtonellida, Cyrtonellidae.[5]

References

  1. Wangberg-Eriksson K. (1964). "Isospira reticulata n. sp. from the Upper Ordovician Boda Limestone, Sweden". Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar 86(3): 229-237.
  2. 1 2 Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1-2).
  3. "Isospira". The Paleobiology Database, accessed 26 February 2010.
  4. Wagner P. J. (2008). "Paleozoic Gastropod, Monoplacophoran and Rostroconch Database".
  5. 1 2 3 "Cyrtonellidae" The Paleobiology Database. Accessed 26 February 2010.
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