Latouchella
Latouchella is an extinct genus of marine invertebrate animal, that is considered to be a mollusk and which may be a sea snail, a gastropod. It is a helcionellid from the Tommotian epoch of what is now Siberia. Its tightly coiled, spiral shell contains a number of low "walls" running up the front surface of the interior; these would have directed water currents within its shell. Between these walls are a series of furrows, parallel to the shell's aperture, giving casts of the internal structure the appearance of a railway line, with sleepers (created by furrows) tying together paired rails that run towards the apex of the shell.
| LatouchellaTemporal range: Tommotian | |
|---|---|
| A reconstruction of Latouchella costata | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | incertae sedis |
| Family: | †Coreospiridae |
| Genus: | †LatouchellaCobbold, 1921 |
| †Latouchella costataCobbold, 1921 | |
| See text. | |
| Archaeospira Yü 1979 | |
| Cambroconus Yu 1981 | |
| Gibbaspira He 1984 | |
| Huanglingella Chen et al. 1981 | |
| Hubeispira Yu 1981 | |
| Reticulatoconus | |
| Uncinaspira He 1984 | |
| Yunanospira Yü 1979 | |
| Yunnanospira Jian 1980 |
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Latouchella is an extinct genus of marine invertebrate animal, that is considered to be a mollusk and which may be a sea snail, a gastropod. It is a helcionellid from the Tommotian epoch of what is now Siberia. Its tightly coiled, spiral shell contains a number of low "walls" running up the front surface of the interior; these would have directed water currents within its shell. Between these walls are a series of furrows, parallel to the shell's aperture, giving casts of the internal structure the appearance of a railway line, with sleepers (created by furrows) tying together paired rails that run towards the apex of the shell.
It was named by Edgar Sterling Cobbold in 1921 for the Rev. William Martin Digues La Touche of Wistanstow, Shropshire, England, in whose collection it was found.
This genus had a curved, segmented shell, and it is often reconstructed as a snail-like creature.
The taxonomy of the genus Latouchella was originally like this: class Helcionelloida, order Helcionellida, superfamily Helcionelloidea, family Helcionellidae.
The taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005 categorizes Latouchella in the family Coreospiridae in the superfamily Scenelloidea within the Paleozoic molluscs of uncertain systematic position.
Latouchella was a type genus in the family Latouchellidae Golikov & Starobogatov, 1989, however Latouchellidae is a synonym of Coreospiridae.
The 2006–2007 taxonomy of the genus Latouchella is like this: class Helcionelloida, subclass Archaeobranchia, order Helcionelliformes, superfamily Helcionelloidea, family Coreospiridae.
Species in the genus Latouchella include:
- Latouchella costata (type)
- L. accordionata
- L. adelocosma
- L. adunca
- L. alicae
- L. arcuata
- L. arguta
- L. burlingi
- L. dimicostata
- L. holmdalense
- L. iacobinica
- L. korobokovi
- L. merino
- L. ostenfeldense
- L. pearylandica
- L. pocatelloensis
- L. sonlingpoensis
- L. taijiangensis
- ? Latouchella memorabilis Missarzhevsky in Rozanov et al., 1969
- ? Latouchella orientalis
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