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Pleurotomaria

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:



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