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Holopea

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Holopea
Shell of † Holopea antiquata (specimen at Estonian Museum of Natural History)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Family: Holopeidae
Genus: Holopea
J. Hall, 1847
Type species
Turbo petholatus
Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms[1]
  • 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.[1]

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

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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

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References

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  1. ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Holopea Hall, 1847 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1558321 on 2022-11-12
  • Pan, Y.-T. (1978). Gastropoda. In: Chengdu Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources (Ed.) Paleontological Atlas of Southwest China. Sichuan Volume 2. Geological Publishing House, Beijing, pp. 403–428
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