Periaulax

Periaulax
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Periaulax
Cossmann, 1888[1]

Periaulax is an extinct genus of gastropods in the Trochidae family.

Species

Species in the genus Periaulax include:

It formerly contained the species Periaulax spiratus, which is currently recognized as Margarites spiratus.[4]

References

  1. Cossmann (1888). Ann. Soc. malac. Belgique 23: 62.
  2. Kollmann H. A. & Odin G. S. (2001) "Chapter D2 Gastropods from the Upper Cretaceous geological site at Tercis les Bains (SW France)".Developments in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy 19: 437-451. doi:10.1016/S0920-5446(01)80045-5.
  3. Amitrov O. (2010). "Gastropods of rare families from the Tshegan Formation of Kazakhstan". Paleontological Journal 44(4): 384-390. doi:10.1134/S0031030110040039.
  4. (1984). Annales de la Société royale zoologique de Belgique, Published by the Society 114-116: 316.
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