Coreospiridae is an extinct family

Family

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 of Paleozoic

Paleozoic

The Paleozoic era is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic eon, spanning from roughly...

 molluscs of uncertain position taxonomically. They might be snail

Snail

Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...

s or they might be monoplacophorans, Gastropoda

Gastropoda

The Gastropoda or gastropods, more commonly known as snails and slugs, are a large taxonomic class within the phylum Mollusca. The class Gastropoda includes snails and slugs of all kinds and all sizes from microscopic to quite large...

 or Monoplacophora

Monoplacophora

Monoplacophora, meaning "bearing one plate", is a polyphyletic class of mollusks with a cap-like shell, living on the bottom of deep sea. Extant representatives were unknown until 1952; previously they were known only from the fossil record.- Definition :...

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2005 taxonomy

The taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005

Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)

The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is currently the most up-to-date overall system for classifying gastropod mollusks...

 categorizes Coreospiridae in the superfamilia Scenelloidea

Scenelloidea

Scenelloidea is an extinct superfamily of paleozoic molluscs of uncertain position .- Families :Based on the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi families in the Scenelloidea include:* † Scenellidae...

 within the
Paleozoic molluscs of uncertain systematic position.

2006–2007 taxonomy

According to the P. Yu. Parkhaev, is the Coreospiridae the family in the family Helcionelloidea Wenz, 1938 in the order Helcionelliformes Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975 within the subclass Archaeobranchia Parkhaev, 2001 in the class Helcionelloida

Helcionelloida

Helcionelloida is the name given to an extinct group of ancient molluscs . These are the oldest known conchiferan molluscs, that is, they had a mineralised shell. Some members of this class were mistaken for Monoplacophorans. The class was erected by Peel in 1991.-Anatomy:These animals were...

 Peel, 1991.

Genera

Genera in the family Coreospiridae include:

• Coreospira Saito, 1936 - type genus
  Type genus
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   of the family Coreospiridae
• Latouchella
  Latouchella
  Latouchella is an extinct genus of helcionellid from the Tommotian epoch of what is now Siberia. Itt tightly-coiled, spiral sheell contains a numer of low "walls" running up its front surface; these would have directed water currents within its shell...
  
  
• Owenella Ulrich & Scofield, 1897
  • Owenella antiquata (Whitfield, 1878) - synonym: Bellerophon antiquata Whitfield, 1878