genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of fossil
sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
s,
marine
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gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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s in the family
Pseudomelaniidae
Pseudomelaniidae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Caenogastropoda.
Genera
Genera within the family Pseudomelaniidae include:
* ''Angulasina'' Gründel, 2012Hudlestoniella''
* ''Pseudomelania'' (''Hudlestoniella'') ''gubleri'' Delpey, 1941
subgenus '' Oonia'' - synonym: ''Eligmoloxus'' Cossmann, 1885"†''Pseudomelania'' Pictet and Campiche 1862 (snail)" Fossilworks, accessed 11 June 2016.
* ''Oonia incrassata'' Kittl, 1899
* ''Oonia pennina'' Parona, 1892
* ''Oonia subtortilis'' Münster, 1841
* ''Oonia texta'' Kittl, 1899
* ''Pseudomelania'' (''Oonia'') ''grossouvrei'' Cossmann, 1899
* ''Pseudomelania'' (''Oonia'') ''limneiformis'' Cossmann, 1885
* ''Pseudomelania'' (''Oonia'') ''similis'' Münster, 1841
subgenus '' Rhabdoconcha''
* ''Pseudomelania'' (''Rhabdoconcha'') ''spirastriata'' Wang, 1977
* ''Rhabdoconcha brongniarti'' Klipstein, 1843
* ''Rhabdoconcha schaeferi'' Kittl, 1894
* ''Rhabdoconcha triadica'' Kittl, 1894
subgenus ?
* ''Pseudomelania aonis'' Kittl, 1894
* '' Pseudomelania calloviensis'' (Hébert & Deslongchamps, 1860)Szabó J. & Jaitly A. K. (2004). "Contributions to the Jurassic of Kachchh, western India VIII. The gastropod fauna. Part II: Discohelicidae, Neritomorpha, Caenogastropoda". ''Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica'' 22: 9–26 PDF
* '' Pseudomelania feruglioi'' Ferrari, 2012 - It was described from the Early
Jurassic
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period, (late
Pliensbachian
The Pliensbachian is an age of the geologic timescale and stage in the stratigraphic column. It is part of the Early or Lower Jurassic Epoch or Series and spans the time between 192.9 ±0.3 Ma and 184.2 ±0.3 Ma (million years ago). The Plie ...
-early
Toarcian
The Toarcian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy, ICS' geologic timescale, an age (geology), age and stage (stratigraphy), stage in the Early Jurassic, Early or Lower Jurassic. It spans the time between 184.2 Megaannum, Ma (million ...
) of
Argentina
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Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
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* Kiel S. (2003) ''New taxonomic data for the gastropod fauna of the Umzamba Formation (Santonian–Campanian, South Africa)''; Cretaceous Research 24 (2003) 449–475
Pseudomelaniidae
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