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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Rostellariidae |
| Genus: | †Rimella Agassiz, 1841[1] |
| Type species | |
| † Strombus fissurella Linnaeus, 1758
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Rimella is a genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Rostellariidae within the Stromboidea, the true conchs and their allies.[2]
Species in this genus are extinct and were found from the Paleocene to the Oligocene of Europe.
- ^ Agassiz L. (1841). In: Sowerby. Min. Conch. (Germ. ed.), 137.
- ^ Bouchet, P. (2015). Rimella. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=578851 on 2016-03-20