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Nerinea

Topic: Biology

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Short description: Extinct genus of gastropods


Nerinea
Temporal range: Jurassic–Cretaceous
Nerineidae - Nerinea sp..JPG
Fossil shell of Nerinea from Italy
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
informal group Lower Heterobranchia
Superfamily:
Nerineoidea
Family:
Nerineidae
Genus:
†Nerinea

Defrance, 1825[1]

†Nerinea is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Heterobranchia.

Fossil record

This genus is present from the Jurassic to the Cretaceous periods.[2] Fossils are known from various localities of Europe, Africa, North America, South America, United States, Colorado river and New Zealand.[3]

Species

Species in the genus Nerinea include:[4]

  • Nerinea desvoidyi D'Orbigny, 1921[3]
  • Nerinea gachupinae Alencaster, 1977[3]
  • Nerinea higoensis Shikama & Yui, 1973
  • Nerinea koikensis Shikama & Yui, 1973
  • Nerinea naumanni Sugiyama & Asao, 1942
  • Nerinea rigida Nagao, 1934
  • Nerinea schickii - from Early Cretaceous, Albian - Syria[5]
  • Nerinea shiidai Shikama & Yui, 1973
  • Nerinea somaliensis Weir, 1925[3]
  • Nerinea somensis Shikama & Yui, 1973
  • Nerinea sugiyamai Shikama & Yui, 1942
  • Nerinea suprjurensis Voltz - from Middle Jurassic, Upper Oolite. Porrentruy, Switzerland.[5]
  • Nerinea syriaca Conrad - from Early Cretaceous, Albian - Syria[5]

  • Nerinea bononiensis

  • Nerinea fossils

  • Nerinea fossils

References

  1. ↑ Defrance (1824). Bull. univ. Sci. Nat.: 284; (1825). Dict. Sci. Nat. 34: 462.
  2. ↑ (in Czech) Pek I., Vašíček Z., Roček Z., Hajn. V. & Mikuláš R.: Základy zoopaleontologie. Olomouc, 1996. 264 pp., ISBN:80-7067-599-3.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Paleobiology Database
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Yale Peabody Museum

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q59766 entry




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