Trochonema is an extinct

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of early marine

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from the Paleozoic, which lasted almost 215 million years. It was first described by John William Salter in 1859. Like many genera in the order Murchisoniina, the relationship between it and other large gastropod clades is uncertain.

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Trochonematidae Fossil taxa described in 1859 Prehistoric gastropod genera {{Paleo-gastropod-stub