†''Nerinea'' is an

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fossil A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserve ...

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

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 ...

mollusc Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...

s in the clade Heterobranchia.

Fossil record

This genus is present from the

Jurassic The Jurassic ( ) is a Geological period, geologic period and System (stratigraphy), stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately 143.1 Mya. ...

to the

Cretaceous The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 143.1 to 66 mya (unit), million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era (geology), Era, as well as the longest. At around 77.1 million years, it is the ...

periods. Fossils are known from various localities of Europe, Africa, North America, South America, United States, Colorado river and New Zealand.Paleobiology Database
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Species

Species in the genus ''Nerinea'' include:Itaru HAYAMI & Tomoki KASE 1977

ttp://www.um.u-tokyo.ac.jp/publish_db/Bulletin/no13/no13009.html ''PART I. PALEOZOIC AND MESOZOIC GASTROPODA'' Bulletin No.13. The University Museum, The University of Tokyo, Tokio. * '' Nerinea desvoidyi'' D'Orbigny, 1921 * '' Nerinea gachupinae'' Alencaster, 1977 * '' Nerinea higoensis'' Shikama & Yui, 1973 * '' Nerinea koikensis'' Shikama & Yui, 1973 * '' Nerinea naumanni'' Sugiyama & Asao, 1942 * '' Nerinea rigida'' Nagao, 1934 * '' Nerinea schickii'' - from Early Cretaceous, Albian - Syria * '' Nerinea shiidai'' Shikama & Yui, 1973 * '' Nerinea somaliensis'' Weir, 1925 * '' Nerinea somensis'' Shikama & Yui, 1973 * '' Nerinea sugiyamai'' Shikama & Yui, 1942 * '' Nerinea suprjurensis'' Voltz - from

Middle Jurassic The Middle Jurassic is the second Epoch (geology), epoch of the Jurassic Period (geology), Period. It lasted from about 174.1 to 161.5 million years ago. Fossils of land-dwelling animals, such as dinosaurs, from the Middle Jurassic are relativel ...

, Upper Oolite. Porrentruy, Switzerland.Yale Peabody Museum
/ref> * '' Nerinea syriaca'' Conrad - from Early Cretaceous, Albian - Syria File:Nerinea bononiensis - Museum fur Naturkunde, Berlin - DSC00033.JPG, ''Nerinea bononiensis'' File:Fossiile teod (Nerinea).JPG, ''Nerinea'' fossils File:Nerinea_unknown,_Courtedoux,_Switzerland.jpg, ''Nerinea'' fossils

References

External links

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Nerineidae Jurassic genus first appearances Cretaceous extinctions Prehistoric gastropod genera {{paleo-gastropod-stub