†Zygopleura is an

extinct Extinction is the termination of an organism by the death of its Endling, last member. A taxon may become Functional extinction, functionally extinct before the death of its last member if it loses the capacity to Reproduction, reproduce and ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Zygopleuridae †Zygopleuridae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Caenogastropoda Caenogastropoda is a taxonomic subclass of molluscs in the class Gastropoda. It is a large diverse group which are mostly sea ...

Fossil record

These extinct sea snails lived from the

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to the

Paleocene The Paleocene ( ), or Palaeocene, is a geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 66 to 56 mya (unit), million years ago (mya). It is the first epoch of the Paleogene Period (geology), Period in the modern Cenozoic Era (geology), ...

( Age range: 326.4 to 48.6 million years ago), The fossils were found in Turkey, Chile, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Tanzania, Tunisia, the United Kingdom, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Colombia, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Oman, Peru, Slovakia, Switzerland, Tunisia and United States.

Species

Species within this genus include:Paleobiology Database
/ref> * † ''Zygopleura angulata'' Wanner 1922 * † ''Zygopleura arctecostata'' Münster 1841†Zygopleura benoisti Cossmann 1907 * † ''Zygopleura brevis'' M'Coy 184 * † ''Zygopleura brevis grossicostta'' Longstaff 1933 * † ''Zygopleura dubia'' Wanner 1922 * † ''Zygopleura dubia'' Gemmellaro 1911 * † ''Zygopleura etalensis'' Piette 1856 * † ''Zygopleura geniculata'' Wanner 1922 * † ''Zygopleura goldbergi'' Reiner 1968 * † ''Zygopleura granietzensis'' Ahlburg 1906 * † ''Zygopleura haasi'' Batten and Stokes 1986 * † ''Zygopleura hybrida'' Münster 1841 * † ''Zygopleura nitida'' Wanner 1922 * † ''Zygopleura numidis'' Termier and Termier 1977 * † ''Zygopleura porulosa'' Terquem 1855 * † ''Zygopleura simplex'' Wanner 1922 * † ''Zygopleura swalloviana'' Shumard 1859 * † ''Zygopleura tunisiensis'' Cox 1969 * † ''Zygopleura verrucosa'' Terquem 1855 * † ''Zygopleura walmstedti'' Klipstein 1843 * † ''Zygopleura variabilis'' (Zapfe, 1962) * † ''Zygopleura yunnanensis'' Pan 1977

References

Zygopleuridae Prehistoric gastropods {{Paleo-gastropod-stub