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Pleurotomariidae

Pleurotomariidae

Overview

Pleurotomariidae Swainson, 1840

Common Name: Slit Snails

Extant/Extinct

Key morphological features: The Pleurotomariidae have large body whorls with a slit through the largest whorl.

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Paleoecology: 

        MOBILITY: Mobile

        FEEDING MODE: Carnivore

        HABITAT: Epifaunal

Sources:

Knight, J. B. et al. 1960. Systematic Descriptions [Archaeogastropoda], in R. C. Moore ed., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part I, Mollusca 1, Volume 1. The University of Kansas and Geological Society of America. 351 pp.


Genera of Pleurotomariidae present in the Cretaceous of the Western Interior Seaway