Pleurotomaria is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pleurotomariidae.[1]
Pleurotomaria Temporal range:
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Pleurotomaria niloticiformes fossil at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Pleurotomariida |
Superfamily: | Pleurotomarioidea |
Family: | Pleurotomariidae |
Genus: | †Pleurotomaria Defrance, 1826 |
Type species | |
† Trochus anglicus J. Sowerby, 1818 |
With current taxonomic changes the genus Pleurotomaria has been reserved exclusively for fossil species (denoted with † below).
Known fossil species of Pleurotomaria include:[2]
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