Cirridae
Extinct family of gastropods
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Cirridae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Porcellioidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
| Cirridae | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Pleurotomariida |
| Superfamily: | †Porcellioidea |
| Family: | †Cirridae Cossmann, 1916 |
These snails date from the Mesozoic era, and are sinistral in their shell-coiling.[1]
Taxonomy
This family consists of three following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):
- Cirrinae Cossmann, 1916
- Platyacrinae Wenz, 1938 – synonym: Hesperocirrinae O. Haas, 1953
- Cassianocirrinae Bandel, 1993
