Holopea
Extinct genus of gastropods
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Holopea is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, Paleozoic gastropod mollusks in the family Holopeidae.[1]
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| Holopea | |
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| Shell of † Holopea antiquata (specimen at Estonian Museum of Natural History) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Family: | †Holopeidae |
| Genus: | †Holopea J. Hall, 1847 |
| Type species | |
| Turbo petholatus Linnaeus, 1758 | |
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These molluscs were stationary epifaunal suspension feeders. They lived in the Paleozoic Era, Ordovician Period, upper Arenigian age (between 478.6 ± 1.7 and 471.8 ± 1.6 million years ago) to the Carboniferous period, lower Serpukhovian age (from 328.3 (± 1.6) Ma to 318.1 (± 1.3) mya).
Distribution
These fossil gastropods are found in: the Permian of China; the Devonian of Australia, Canada, United States; the Silurian of Australia, Canada, Russia, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States; the Ordovician of Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Iran, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, United States; Chazy of Canada; Arenig of Greenland.
See also
- List of marine gastropod genera in the fossil record
- † Holopea antiquata J. Perner, 1903 (synonym: † Turbo balticus E.F.R.K. Koken & J. Perner, 1925)
- † Holopea bomiensis Y.-T. Pan, 1978 (unassessed)
