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Isospiridae

Extinct family of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Isospiridae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, Paleozoic gastropod mollusks.[2]

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This family is unassigned to superfamily. This family has no subfamilies according to the taxonomy by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005). It is classified as "Basal taxa that are certainly Gastropoda" by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).[2]

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Genera

  • Isospira Koken, 1897 - type genus of the family Isospiridae. Species include:[3]
    • Isospira bucanioides Koken, 1897
    • Isospira huttoni Cowper Reed, 1921
    • Isospira lepida Perner, 1903
    • Isospira nautilina Koken & Perner, 1925
    • Isospira reinwaldti Öpik, 1930
    • Isospira reticulatus Wängberg-Eriksson, 1964 - synonym: Isospira reticulata

Taxonomy

Peter J. Wagner consider Isospiridae as synonym of Cyrtonellidae within Tergomya,[4][5] The Paleobiology Database has become adatapted to[5] this unpublished opinion by Wagner. This alternate taxonomy is as: Tergomya, Cyrtonellida, Cyrtonellidae.[5]

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