Holopea

Holopea is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, Paleozoic gastropod mollusks in the family Holopeidae.^[1]

Holopea
Shell of † Holopea antiquata (specimen at Estonian Museum of Natural History)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Family:	†Holopeidae
Genus:	†Holopea J. Hall, 1847
Type species
Turbo petholatus Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms[1]
Cirropsis Perner, 1903 Haplospira Koken, 1897 Litiopsis Salter, 1866 Staurospira Perner, 1907 Tortilla Perner, 1903

These molluscs were stationary epifaunal suspension feeders. They lived in the Paleozoic Era, Ordovician Period, upper Arenigian age (between 478.6 ± 1.7 and 471.8 ± 1.6 million years ago) to the Carboniferous period, lower Serpukhovian age (from 328.3 (± 1.6) Ma to 318.1 (± 1.3) mya).

Distribution

These fossil gastropods are found in: the Permian of China; the Devonian of Australia, Canada, United States; the Silurian of Australia, Canada, Russia, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States; the Ordovician of Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Iran, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, United States; Chazy of Canada; Arenig of Greenland.

See also

• List of marine gastropod genera in the fossil record
• † Holopea antiquata J. Perner, 1903 (synonym: † Turbo balticus E.F.R.K. Koken & J. Perner, 1925)
• † Holopea bomiensis Y.-T. Pan, 1978 (unassessed)