Pileolidae

Pileolidae
Temporal range: 167.7–99.6 Ma

Bathonian to Late Albian

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Neritimorpha

clade Cycloneritimorpha

Superfamily: Neritoidea
Family: †Pileolidae
Bandel, Grünndel & Maxwell, 2000
Species

Pileolidae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks.[1] This family is related to the extant family Neritidae, the nerites. The family has no subfamilies according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005.

Genera

The genus Pileolus[2] is found in Cretaceous age deposits in Europe, and Jurassic age deposits in New Zealand.

References

  1. ↑ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1-2).
  2. ↑ Özdikmen, H. (2009). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families" (PDF). Mun. Ent. Zool. 4 (1): 233–256.


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