Holopea
Holopea Temporal range: Ordovician - Carboniferous | |
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Holopea praestans from Czech Republic, at the National Museum (Prague) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Euomphalina |
Family: | †Holopeidae |
Genus: | †Holopea J. Hall 1847 |
Synonyms | |
Cirropsis Perner 1903 Haplospira Koken 1897 Litiopsis Salter 1866 Staurospira Perner 1907 Tortilla Perner 1903 |
Holopea is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, Paleozoic gastropod mollusks in the family Holopeidae.
These molluscs were stationary epifaunal suspension feeders. They lived in the Paleozoic Era, Ordovician Period, upper Arenigian age (between 478.6 ± 1.7 and 471.8 ± 1.6 million years ago) to the Carboniferous period, lower Serpukhovian age (from 328.3 (± 1.6) Ma to 318.1 (± 1.3) mya).
Distribution
These fossil gastropods are found in: the Permian of China; the Devonian of Australia, Canada, United States; the Silurian of Australia, Canada, Russia, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States; the Ordovician of Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Iran, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, United States; Chazy of Canada; Arenig of Greenland.
See also
List of marine gastropod genera in the fossil record
References
- Paleobiology Database
- Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database