Craspedostomatidae
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Craspedostomatidae is an extinct taxonomic family
of fossil
sea snail
s, marine
, gastropod mollusks in the clade Neritimorpha
.
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
of fossil
Fossil
Fossils are the preserved remains or traces of animals , plants, and other organisms from the remote past...
sea 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, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
, gastropod mollusks in the clade Neritimorpha
Neritimorpha
Neritimorpha is a taxonomic grouping, an unranked clade of snails, gastropod mollusks. This grouping includes land snails, sea snails, some deepwater limpets, and also freshwater snails...
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Genera
- Craspedostoma
- Craspedostoma elegantulum
- Craspedostoma filistriatum
- Craspedostoma fugitivum
- Craspedostoma glabrum
- Craspedostoma involutum
- Craspedostoma spinulosum
- Craspedostoma tuba