Kittlidiscidae

Kittlidiscidae is an extinct family of Middle Triassic gastropods in the superfamily Pleurotomarioidea, named to contain the genus Kittlidiscus[1] and included in the Vetigastropoda.

Kittlidiscidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
Superorder:
Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:
Pleurotomarioidea
Family:
Kittlidiscidae

Cox, 1960

Note that Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005 gives Vetigastropoda simply as a clade, which not being paraphyletic, it also is, leaving taxonomic ranking to a future date. Other gastropod classifications, including those subsequent, have determined that the Vetigastropoda is a superorder.[2][3]

Genera

The Kittlidiscidae includes the genus Kittlidiscus.[1]

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References
  1. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part I, R.C. Moore (ed) Geol Soc of America and Univ. Kansas Press, 1960.
  2. Vetigastropoda-Paleodb
  3. Manandmolluc gastropoda


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