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Metacerithiidae

Metacerithiidae
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Metacerithium balticum fossil at the Geological Museum, Copenhagen.
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Metacerithiidae

Cossmann, 1906
Synonyms

† Terebrellidae Delpey, 1941 (invalid: type genus a junior homonym )

Metacerithiidae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Campaniloidea.[2]

According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Metacerithiidae has no subfamilies.

  1. ^ "†family Metacerithiidae Cossmann 1906 (snail)". Fossilworks, accessed 14 July 2016.
  2. ^ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).

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