Isospiridae
Extinct family of gastropods
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::summary Extinct family of gastropods ::
Isospiridae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, Paleozoic gastropod mollusks.{{cite journal |author1=Bouchet, P. |author2=Rocroi, J.-P. | year = 2005 | date= | title = Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families | journal = Malacologia | volume =47 | issue = 1-2 | pages = | issn = | doi =
This family is unassigned to superfamily. This family has no subfamilies according to the taxonomy by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005). It is classified as "Basal taxa that are certainly Gastropoda" by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).
Genera
- Isospira Koken, 1897 - type genus of the family Isospiridae. Species include:
- Isospira bucanioides Koken, 1897
- Isospira huttoni Cowper Reed, 1921
- Isospira lepida Perner, 1903
- Isospira nautilina Koken & Perner, 1925
- Isospira reinwaldti Öpik, 1930
- Isospira reticulatus Wängberg-Eriksson, 1964 - synonym: Isospira reticulata
Taxonomy
Peter J. Wagner consider Isospiridae as synonym of Cyrtonellidae within Tergomya, The Paleobiology Database has become adatapted to this unpublished opinion by Wagner. This alternate taxonomy is as: Tergomya, Cyrtonellida, Cyrtonellidae.
References
References
- [[Kristina Wangberg-Eriksson. Wangberg-Eriksson K.]] (1964). "''Isospira reticulata'' n. sp. from the Upper Ordovician Boda Limestone, Sweden". ''Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholm Förhandlingar'' '''86'''(3): 229-237.
- [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=8340 "''Isospira''"]. [[The Paleobiology Database]], accessed 26 February 2010.
- [[Peter J. Wagner. (April 2017)
- [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=70839 "Cyrtonellidae"] [[The Paleobiology Database]]. Accessed 26 February 2010.
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