Subulites
Extinct genus of gastropods
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Subulites is a genus of fossil sea snails, mud-dwelling marine gastropod mollusks known from the early-middle Ordovician, apparently allied with the Caenogastropoda. They can be identified by their two whorls.
| Subulites Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
| Subulites gigas specimen collected from limestones of the Upper-Ordovician Nabala Stage, Saaremõisa, Estonia | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | †Subulitoidea |
| Family: | †Soleniscidae |
| Genus: | †Subulites |