Pleurotomaria Temporal range: Jurassic–Cretaceous |
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Pleurotomaria niloticiformes fossil at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
Superfamily: | Pleurotomarioidea |
Family: | Pleurotomariidae |
Genus: |
† Pleurotomaria Sowerby I, 1821 |
Pleurotomaria is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pleurotomariidae.
Species within the genus Pleurotomaria include
With current taxonomic changes the genus Pleurotomaria has been reserved exclusively for fossil species (denoted with † below).
Known fossil species of Pleurotomaria include: