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Pleurotomaria
Extinct genus of gastropods / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pleurotomaria is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pleurotomariidae.[2]
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Pleurotomaria | |
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Pleurotomaria niloticiformes fossil at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Pleurotomariida |
Superfamily: | Pleurotomarioidea |
Family: | Pleurotomariidae |
Genus: | †Pleurotomaria Defrance, 1826 |
Type species | |
† Trochus anglicus J. Sowerby, 1818 |
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