Rimella (gastropod)

Rimella
Temporal range: Paleocene - Oligocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Stromboidea
Family: Strombidae
Genus: Rimella
Agassiz, 1841[1]

Rimella is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Strombidae, the true conchs. This genus is found from the Paleocene to the Oligocene of Europe.

Species

Species within the genus Rimella include:

References

  1. Agassiz L. (1841). In: Sowerby. Min. Conch. (Germ. ed.), 137.

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