Coreospiridae
Extinct family of molluscs
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Coreospiridae is an extinct family of Paleozoic molluscs of uncertain position taxonomically. They might be snails (Gastropoda), Helcionelloida, or they might be Monoplacophora.
| Coreospiridae Temporal range: Early Cambrian | |
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| Latouchella costata, reconstructed as a snail | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | incertae sedis |
| Superfamily: | †Scenelloidea |
| Family: | †Coreospiridae Knight, 1947 |
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| Synonyms | |
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Archaeospiridae Yu, 1979 | |
2005 taxonomy
The taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005[1] categorizes Coreospiridae in the superfamily Scenelloidea within the Paleozoic molluscs of uncertain systematic position.
2006–2007 taxonomy
According to P. Yu. Parkhaev, the family Coreospiridae is in the family Helcionelloidea (Wenz, 1938) in the order Helcionelliformes (Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975) within the subclass Archaeobranchia (Parkhaev, 2001) in the class Helcionelloida (Peel, 1991).
Genera
Genera in the family Coreospiridae include:
- Coreospira Saito, 1936 - type genus of the family Coreospiridae
- Latouchella
- Owenella Ulrich & Scofield, 1897
- Owenella antiquata (Whitfield, 1878) - synonym: Bellerophon antiquata Whitfield, 1878[2]
