Cirridae

Cirridae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Pleurotomariida
Superfamily: †Porcellioidea
Family: †Cirridae
Cossmann, 1916

Cirridae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Porcellioidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

These snails date from the Mesozoic era, and are sinistral in their shell-coiling.

Taxonomy

This family consists of three following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

Genera and species

Genera and species within the family Cirridae include:

References

  1. ↑ "Nacre in Late Cretaceous Sensuitrochus Ferreri-Implications for the Taxonomic Affinities of the Cirridae (Gastropoda) – Journal of Paleontology". Journal of Paleontology. July 1, 2004. Archived from the original on 2 November 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2022 – via HighBeam Research.
  2. 1 2 Frýda J. & Blodgett R. B. (March 1998). "Two new cirroidean genera (Vetigastropoda, Archaeogastropoda) from the Emsian (Late Early Devonian) of Alaska with notes on the early phylogeny of Cirroidea". Journal of Paleontology 72(2): 265–273. abstract