Keepingia

Keepingia
Shell of † Keepingia laevis (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Nassariidae
Genus:	†Keepingia Nuttall & J. Cooper, 1973
Type species
† Buccinum gossardii Nyst, 1836
Synonyms
† Colwellia Nuttall & J. Cooper, 1973 † Desorinassa Nuttall & J. Cooper, 1973

Keepingia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Dorsaninae of the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.

Species

• † Keepingia gossardii (Nyst, 1836)
• † Keepingia laevis Lozouet, 1999

References

• Nuttall C.P. & Cooper J. (1973). A review of some English Paleogene Nassariidae, formerly referred to Cominella. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology. 23(3): 179–219.
• Lozouet, P., 1999. Nouvelles espèces de gastéropodes (Mollusca: Gastropoda) de l'Oligocène et du Miocène inférieur d'Aquitaine (sud-ouest de la France). Partie 2. Cossmanniana 6(1-2): 1-68
• Lozouet P. & Galindo L.A. (2015). Resolution of the confused classification of some Miocene Nassariidae, and reappraisal of their paleobiodiversity on the French Atlantic seaboard. Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 144(1): 31-50

External links

• Media related to Keepingia at Wikimedia Commons

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