Sinuopeidae
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| Sinuopeidae | |
|---|---|
| Sinuopea eminensis fossil, National Museum of Natural History | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †Sinuopeidae Wenz, 1938[1] |
Sinuopeidae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, Paleozoic gastropod molluscs.[2]
This family is unassigned to superfamily. This family consists of three following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):
- Sinuopeinae Wenz, 1938
- Platyschismatinae Knight, 1956[3]
- Turbonellininae Knight, 1956[3]