Nerinea

Nerinea
Nerinea
Temporal range: Jurassic–Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

informal group Lower Heterobranchia

Superfamily: Nerineoidea
Family: Nerineidae
Genus: Nerinea
Defrance, 1825

Nerinea is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Heterobranchia. The genus is known from the Jurassic to the Cretaceous periods.[1]

Species

Species in the genus Nerinea include[2]:

  • Nerinea higoensis Shikama & Yui, 1973
  • Nerinea koikensis Shikama & Yui, 1973
  • Nerinea naumanni Sugiyama & Asao, 1942
  • Nerinea rigida Nagao, 1934
  • Nerinea? ryofuae Tsuchi & Kagami, 1967
  • Nerinea shiidai Shikama & Yui, 1973
  • Nerinea somensis Shikama & Yui, 1973
  • Nerinea sugiyamai Shikama & Yui, 1942
  • Nerinea suprjurensis Voltz from Middle Jurassic, Upper Oolite. Porrentruy, Switzerland.[3]

References

  1. ^ (in Czech) Pek I., Vašíček Z., Roček Z., Hajn. V. & Mikuláš R.: Základy zoopaleontologie. Olomouc, 1996. 264 pp., ISBN 80-7067-599-3.
  2. ^ Itaru HAYAMI & Tomoki KASE 1977. A SYSTEMATIC SURVEY OF THE PALEOZOIC AND MESOZOIC GASTROPODA AND PALEOZOIC BIVALVIA FROM JAPAN. PART I. PALEOZOIC AND MESOZOIC GASTROPODA. Bulletin No.13. The University Museum, The University of Tokyo, Tokio.
  3. ^ http://www.yale.edu/ypmip/taxon/gast/19083.html

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