Paleostyloidea
Encyclopedia
Paleostyloidea is an extinct superfamily of fossil
sea snail
s, marine
gastropod mollusks in the clade Caenogastropoda
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Fossil
Fossils are the preserved remains or traces of animals , plants, and other organisms from the remote past...
sea snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
gastropod mollusks in the clade Caenogastropoda
Caenogastropoda
Caenogastropoda is a taxonomic clade of a large diverse group of mostly marine gastropods.Caenogastropoda contains a majority of the families of shelled marine molluscs including such families as the periwinkles, cowries, wentletraps, moon snails, and cone snails.About 60% of all living gastropods...
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Taxonomy
Families within the superfamily Paleostyloidea are as follows:- † Family PalaeostylidaePalaeostylidaePalaeostylidae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Caenogastropoda....
- † Family GoniasmatidaeGoniasmatidae†Goniasmatidae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Caenogastropoda....
- † Family PithodeidaePithodeidaePithodeidae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Caenogastropoda....