Velates
Extinct genus of gastropods / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Velates is an extinct genus of marine gastropod mollusks belonging to the family Neritidae.
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These snails lived from Paleocene to the Miocene (age range: from 58.7 to 11.608 million years ago). Fossil shells within this genus have been found all over the world.[2]