Nerinea

Nerinea
Temporal range: Jurassic–Cretaceous
Fossil shell of Nerinea from Italy
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): Heterobranchia
Superfamily: Nerineoidea
Family: Nerineidae
Genus: Nerinea
Defrance, 1825

Nerinea is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Heterobranchia.

Fossil record

This genus is present from the Jurassic to the Cretaceous periods.[1] Fossils are known from various localities of Europe, Africa, North America, South America, China and New Zealand. [2]

Species

Species in the genus Nerinea include:[3]

References

  1. (in Czech) Pek I., Vašíček Z., Roček Z., Hajn. V. & Mikuláš R.: Základy zoopaleontologie. Olomouc, 1996. 264 pp., ISBN 80-7067-599-3.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Paleobiology Database
  3. Itaru HAYAMI & Tomoki KASE 1977. A SYSTEMATIC SURVEY OF THE PALEOZOIC AND MESOZOIC GASTROPODA AND PALEOZOIC BIVALVIA FROM JAPAN. PART I. PALEOZOIC AND MESOZOIC GASTROPODA. Bulletin No.13. The University Museum, The University of Tokyo, Tokio.
  4. 1 2 3 Yale Peabody Museum


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