Metacerithiidae
Extinct family of gastropods
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Metacerithiidae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Campaniloidea.[2]
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| Metacerithium balticum fossil at the Geological Museum, Copenhagen. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | incertae sedis |
| Superfamily: | Campaniloidea |
| Family: | †Metacerithiidae Cossmann, 1906 |
| Synonyms | |
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† Terebrellidae Delpey, 1941 (invalid: type genus a junior homonym ) | |
According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Metacerithiidae has no subfamilies.
Genera
Genera within the family Metacerithiidae include:
- † Diatrypesis Tomlin, 1929
- † Metacerithium Cossmann, 1906[3] - the type genus
- † Nerineopsis Cossmann, 1906
- Synonyms
- † Terebrella Andreae, 1887 : synonym of † Diatrypesis Tomlin, 1929 (invalid: junior homonym of Terebrella Maltzan, 1887; Trypetes Tomlin, 1929, is a replacement name)
- † Trypetes Tomlin, 1929 : synonym of † Diatrypesis Tomlin, 1929 (invalid: junior homonym of Trypetes Schenck, 1859; Diatrypesis is a replacement name)
