| Nerinea Temporal range: Jurassic–Cretaceous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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| Fossil shell of Nerinea from Italy | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia informal group Lower Heterobranchia |
| Superfamily: | Nerineoidea |
| Family: | Nerineidae |
| Genus: | †Nerinea Defrance, 1825 |
†Nerinea is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Heterobranchia.
Fossil record
This genus is present from the Jurassic to the Cretaceous periods. Fossils are known from various localities of Europe, Africa, North America, South America, United States, Colorado river and New Zealand.
Species
Species in the genus Nerinea include:
- Nerinea desvoidyi D'Orbigny, 1921
- Nerinea gachupinae Alencaster, 1977
- Nerinea higoensis Shikama & Yui, 1973
- Nerinea koikensis Shikama & Yui, 1973
- Nerinea naumanni Sugiyama & Asao, 1942
- Nerinea rigida Nagao, 1934
- Nerinea schickii - from Early Cretaceous, Albian - Syria
- Nerinea shiidai Shikama & Yui, 1973
- Nerinea somaliensis Weir, 1925
- Nerinea somensis Shikama & Yui, 1973
- Nerinea sugiyamai Shikama & Yui, 1942
- Nerinea suprjurensis Voltz - from Middle Jurassic, Upper Oolite. Porrentruy, Switzerland.
- Nerinea syriaca Conrad - from Early Cretaceous, Albian - Syria
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Nerinea bononiensis
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Nerinea fossils
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Nerinea fossils
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References
- Defrance (1824). Bull. univ. Sci. Nat.: 284; (1825). Dict. Sci. Nat. 34: 462.
- (in Czech) Pek I., Vašíček Z., Roček Z., Hajn. V. & Mikuláš R.: Základy zoopaleontologie. Olomouc, 1996. 264 pp., ISBN 80-7067-599-3.
- ^ Paleobiology Database
- Itaru HAYAMI & Tomoki KASE 1977. A SYSTEMATIC SURVEY OF THE PALEOZOIC AND MESOZOIC GASTROPODA AND PALEOZOIC BIVALVIA FROM JAPAN. PART I. PALEOZOIC AND MESOZOIC GASTROPODA. Bulletin No.13. The University Museum, The University of Tokyo, Tokio.
- ^ Yale Peabody Museum
External links
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