Pseudomelania

Pseudomelania
Pseudomelania elegantula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Pseudomelanoidea
Family: Pseudomelaniidae
Genus: Pseudomelania
Pictet and Campiche, 1862
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Pseudomelania is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelaniidae.

In 2012, a new species, P. feruglioi, was described from the Early Jurassic period, (late Pliensbachian-early Toarcian) of Argentina by S. Mariel Ferrari.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Pseudomelania include:

References

  1. S. Mariel Ferrari (2012)."New Early Jurassic gastropods from west-central Patagonia, Argentina". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica in press. doi:10.4202/app.2011.0090.


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