Nerinea

Short description: Extinct genus of gastropods

Nerinea

Temporal range: Jurassic–Cretaceous

PreЄ

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.

## Contents

* 1 Fossil record
* 2 Species
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## 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

* MNHN
* Galerie photos de fossiles

Wikidata ☰ Q59766 entry

0.00

(0 votes)

Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerinea. Read more

|

Retrieved from "https://handwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Biology:Nerinea&oldid=18459"