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Holopea
Extinct genus of gastropods / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Holopea is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, Paleozoic gastropod mollusks in the family Holopeidae.[1]
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Holopea | |
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Shell of † Holopea antiquata (specimen at Estonian Museum of Natural History) | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Family: | †Holopeidae |
Genus: | †Holopea J. Hall, 1847 |
Type species | |
Turbo petholatus Linnaeus, 1758 | |
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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).