Hokkaidoconchidae

Hokkaidoconchidae
Two shells of Hokkaidoconcha occidentalis from the original 1895 description.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Abyssochrysoidea
Family: Hokkaidoconchidae
Kaim, Jenkins & Warén, 2008[1]

Hokkaidoconchidae, common name hokkaidoconchids, is an extinct family of deep-water sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks.[2]

Shell description

The shell is small and elongate.[2]

Genera

References

  1. Kaim A., Jenkins R.G. & Warén A. 2008. Provannid and provannid−like gastropods from Late Cretaceous cold seeps of Hokkaido (Japan) and the fossil record of the Provannidae (Gastropoda: Abyssochrysoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 154: 421–436.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Kiel, S., Campbell, K.A., Elder, W.P., and Little, C.T.S. 2008. Jurassic and Cretaceous gastropods from hydrocarbon seeps in forearc basin and accretionary prism settings, California. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53 (4): 679–703.
  3. Stanton T. W. 1895. Contributions to the Cretaceous paleontology of the Pacific coast: the fauna of the Knoxville beds. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 133: 1–132.


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