Temnotropidae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Haliotoidea, the abalones and their allies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). This family has no subfamilies.
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(unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda
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Family: | †Temnotropidae Cox, 1960
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Genera
editGenera within the family Temnotropidae include:
- Temnotropis, the type genus [1]
References
edit- Cox, L. R. (1960). Thoughts on the classification of the Gastropoda. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 33(6): 239−261
- Paleobiology database info [2]