Cheilotomona

Cheilotomona
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: incertae sedis
Family: †Goniasmatidae
Genus: †Cheilotomona
Strand, 1928[1]
Species
  • Cheilotomona acutocarinata
  • Cheilotomona avisii
  • Cheilotomona blumi
  • Cheilotomona elegans Yin and Yochelson, 1983[2]
  • Cheilotomona pentagonum

Cheilotomona is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine gastropods in the family Goniasmatidae. The species C. elegans is from a Pelsonian/Illyrian marine shale/marl in the Triassic Qingyan Formation of Guizhou Province, China.

References

  1. ↑ E. Strand. 1928. Miscellanea nomenclatorica zoologica et palaeontologica. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Abteilung A, pages 30-75
  2. ↑ H.-F. Yin and E. L. Yochelson. 1983. Middle Triassic Gastropoda from Qingyan, Guizhou Province, China: 1 - Pleurotomariacea and Murchisoniacea. Journal of Paleontology 57(1):162-187
  • "Cheilotomona". The Encyclopedia of Life.
  • "Cheilotomona". Paleobiology Database.