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Symmetrocapulidae

Symmetrocapulidae is an extinct taxonomic family of fossil snails, gastropod mollusks in the monotypic superfamily Symmetrocapuloidea within the clade Cycloneritimorpha.

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Symmetrocapulidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Cycloneritida
Superfamily: Symmetrocapuloidea
Wenz, 19381
Family: Symmetrocapulidae
Wenz, 19381

Symmetrocapulidae is an extinct taxonomic family of fossil snails, gastropod mollusks in the monotypic superfamily Symmetrocapuloidea within the clade Cycloneritimorpha.

This superfamily has one family and no subfamilies.

Genera

The type genus is Symmetrocapulus Dacqué, 1934.

References

References

  1. Wenz W. A. 1938. Teil 1: Allgemeiner Teil und Prosobranchia. Band 6, Teil 1, page 212. 240 pp. In: Schindewolf O. H. (ed.) Handbuch der Paläozoologie, Band 6, Gastropoda. Borntraeger, Berlin, xii + 1639 pp.