| Holopea | |
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| Shell of † Holopea antiquata (specimen at Estonian Museum of Natural History) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Family: | †Holopeidae |
| Genus: | †Holopea J. Hall, 1847 |
| Type species | |
| Turbo petholatus Linnaeus, 1758 | |
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Holopea is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, Paleozoic gastropod mollusks in the family Holopeidae.
These molluscs were stationary epifaunal suspension feeders. They lived in the Paleozoic Era, Ordovician Period, upper Arenigian age (between 478.6 ± 1.7 and 471.8 ± 1.6 million years ago) to the Carboniferous period, lower Serpukhovian age (from 328.3 (± 1.6) Ma to 318.1 (± 1.3) mya).
Distribution
These fossil gastropods are found in: the Permian of China; the Devonian of Australia, Canada, United States; the Silurian of Australia, Canada, Russia, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States; the Ordovician of Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Iran, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, United States; Chazy of Canada; Arenig of Greenland.
See also
- List of marine gastropod genera in the fossil record
- † Holopea antiquata J. Perner, 1903 (synonym: † Turbo balticus E.F.R.K. Koken & J. Perner, 1925)
- † Holopea bomiensis Y.-T. Pan, 1978 (unassessed)
References
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Holopea Hall, 1847 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1558321 on 2022-11-12
- Pan, Y.-T. (1978). Gastropoda. In: Chengdu Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources (Ed.) Paleontological Atlas of Southwest China. Sichuan Volume 2. Geological Publishing House, Beijing, pp. 403–428
External links
- J. Hall. 1847. Containing descriptions of the organic remains of the lower division of the New York system (equivalent of the Lower Silurian rocks of Europe). Paleontology of New York 1:1-338
- Paleobiology Database
- Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database
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