Bellerophontoidea

Bucanopsis leda

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda / Monoplacophora ?
Subclassis: †Amphigastropoda / ?
Ordo: †Bellerophontida / ?
Superfamilia: †Bellerophontoidea
Familiae: †Bellerophontidae – †Bucanellidae – †Bucaniidae – †Cymbulariidae – †Euphemitidae – †Knightitidae – †Plectonotidae – †Pterothecidae – †Sinuitidae – †Temnodiscidae – †Yochelsoniidae
Genera incertae sedis: †Blodgettinotus – †Thoralispira

Name

Bellerophontoidea McCoy, 1851

Synonyms:

• Bellerophontina
• Bellerophontacea

Type genus: Bellerophon

Distribution

Temporal range: Cambrian - Triassic

References

• McCoy, F. 1852. A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks, with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge with figures of the new and imperfectly known species. Parker & Son, London, 661 pp., 25 pl. Reference page. , page: 307.
• McCoy, F. 1851. On some new Silurian Mollusca. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology 77: 45-63. Reference page. 
• Ketwetsuriya, C., Karapunar, B., Charoentitirat, T. & Nützel, A. 2020. Middle Permian (Roadian) gastropods from the Khao Khad Formation, Central Thailand: Implications for palaeogeography of the Indochina Terrane. Zootaxa 4766(1): 1–47. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4766.1.1 Reference page. 

Links

• Bellerophontoidea - Taxon details on Fossiilid.info.
• Bellerophontoidea – Taxon details on Fossilworks.
• Bellerophontoidea – Taxon details on World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS).

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