Pseudomelania

Pseudomelania
Pseudomelania elegantula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Pseudomelanoidea
Family: Pseudomelaniidae
Genus: Pseudomelania
Pictet & Campiche, 1862

Pseudomelania is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelaniidae.

Species

Species within the genus Pseudomelania include:

subgenus Hudlestoniella

subgenus Oonia - synonym: Eligmoloxus Cossmann, 1885[1]

subgenus Rhabdoconcha[1]

subgenus ?

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 "†Pseudomelania Pictet and Campiche 1862 (snail)". Fossilworks, accessed 11 June 2016.
  2. 1 2 Szabó J. & Jaitly A. K. (2004). "Contributions to the Jurassic of Kachchh, western India VIII. The gastropod fauna. Part II: Discohelicidae, Neritomorpha, Caenogastropoda". Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 22: 9–26. PDF.
  3. Ferrari S. M. (2012). "New Early Jurassic gastropods from west-central Patagonia, Argentina". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica in press. doi:10.4202/app.2011.0090.
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