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Grangerellidae

Grangerellidae is an extinct family of gastropods in the superfamily Orthalicoidea. This family has no subfamilies.

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Grangerellidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Grangerellidae
Russell, 19311
Type genus
Grangerella

Grangerellidae is an extinct family of gastropods in the superfamily Orthalicoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).2 This family has no subfamilies.2

Genera

Genera within the family Grangerellidae include:

  • Grangerella Cockerell, 19153 - the type genus of the family Grangerellidae2
  • Protoboysia Cockerell, 19144
References

References

  1. Russell L. S. (1931). "Early Tertiary Mollusca from Wyoming". Bulletins of American Paleontology 18(64): 39 pp., 4 plates. page 25, plate 4.
  2. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  3. Cockerell T. D. A. (1915). "Gastropod Mollusca from the Tertiary strata of the West". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 34(3): 115-120. page 116. PDF.
  4. Cockerell T. D. A. (1914). "Land shells from the Tertiary of Wyoming". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 33(24): 323-325. page 323. PDF.
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