Protoma

Protoma
Temporal range: Oligocene - Recent
Fossil of Protoma cathedralis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: incertae sedis
Family: Turritellidae
Genus: Protoma
Baird, 1870
Synonyms[1]
  • Protoma (Protomella)
  • Protomella Thiele, 1929

Protoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turritellidae.[1]

Species

Extant species within the genus Protoma include:

Species brought into synonymy

Extinct species

  • † Protoma cathedralis Brongniart 1856
  • † Protoma deshayesi d'Archiac 1850
  • † Protoma renevieri d'Archiac and Haime 1854
  • † Protoma retrodilatatum Vredenburg 1928
  • † Protoma rotifera Deshayes 1832
  • † Protoma sindiense Vredenburg 1928
  • † Protoma subrenevieri Vredenburg 1928

Fossils of sea snails within this genus have been found in sediments of Europe, South Africa, India, and Pakistan from Oligocene to Quaternary (age range: 28.4 to 0.012 million years ago).[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Protoma Baird, 1870. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 May 2010.
  2. ^ Protoma knockeri Baird, 1870. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 May 2010.
  3. ^ Fossilworks
  • Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
  • Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg

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