Isospiridae

Isospiridae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: incertae sedis
Family: †Isospiridae
Wangberg-Eriksson, 1964

Isospiridae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, Paleozoic gastropod molluscs.

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).

Genera

Taxonomy

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Isospiridae as synonym of Cyrtonellidae within Tergomya, The Paleobiology Database has become adatapted to this unpublished opinion by Wagner.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

References

  1. ↑ Wangberg-Eriksson K. (1964). "Isospira reticulata n. sp. from the Upper Ordovician Boda Limestone, Sweden". Geologiska Föreningen 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". [permanent dead link]
  5. 1 2 3 "Cyrtonellidae" The Paleobiology Database. Accessed 26 February 2010.