Trochactaeon

Trochactaeon
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous–Early Cretaceous
Five views of a fossil shell of Trochactaeon conicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

informal group Lower Heterobranchia

Superfamily: Acteonoidea
Family: Acteonellidae
Subfamily: Acteonellinae
Genus: Trochactaeon
Meek, 1863[1]

Trochactaeon is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Acteonellidae.

The genus Trochactaeon is known from the Late Cretaceous to the Early Cretaceous periods.[2]

Species

Species in the genus Trochactaeon include:

References

  1. Meek (1863). Amer. J. Sci. (3): 35, 87, 89.
  2. (Czech) Ivanov M., Hrdličková S. & Gregorová R. (2001). Encyklopedie zkamenělin. Rebo Productions, Dobřejovice, 1. vydání, 312 pp., page 124.
  3. PART I. PALEOZOIC AND MESOZOIC GASTROPODA


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