Bellerophontidae

Bellerophontidae
Temporal range: Furongian–Early Triassic (Possible Anisian records)[1]
Bucanopsis leda (subfamily Bucanopsinae)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda (?)
Order: †Bellerophontida
Superfamily: †Bellerophontoidea
Family: †Bellerophontidae
McCoy, 1852[2]
Subfamilies and genera

see text.

The Bellerophontidae are an extinct family of specialized globose bellerophontids, Paleozoic and early Triassic mollusks of the class Gastropoda.[3]

  1. ^ Kaim, Andrzej; Nutzel, Alexander. "Dead bellerophontids walking—the short Mesozoic history of the Bellerophontoidea (Gastropoda)". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.
  2. ^ McCoy F. 1852. A synonpsis 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 plates. Bellerophontidae is at page 307.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Bouchet was invoked but never defined (see the help page).