Orthonychiidae

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Phylum:Mollusca
Superfamily:Platyceratoidea
Orthonychiidae
Temporal range: Mid Ordovician–Devonian[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: incertae sedis
Superfamily: Platyceratoidea
Family: Orthonychiidae
Bandel & Frýda, 1999

Orthonychiidae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine, gastropod molluscs in the clade Cyrtoneritimorpha.[2]

There is an unusually great degree of variability within the shells of species in the genus Orthonychia,[1] but an analysis of this variability has not been done yet (2008).[1]

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