Biology:Subulites

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Short description: Extinct genus of gastropods

Subulites
Temporal range: Early Ordovician–Mid Ordovician[1][2]
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Subulitoidea
Family: Soleniscidae
Genus: Subulites

Subulites is a genus of fossil sea snails, mud-dwelling marine gastropod mollusks known from the early-middle Ordovician, apparently allied with the Caenogastropoda.

References

  1. Stanley, Jnr., George D. (1977). "Paleoecology of Subulites: a gastropod in the Middle Ordovician of central Tennessee". Journal of Paleontology 51 (1): 161–168. 
  2. Nützel, A.; Erwin, D. H.; Mapes, R. H. (2000). "Identity and phylogeny of the Late Paleozoic Subulitoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Paleontology 74 (4): 575–598. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2000)074<0575:IAPOTL>2.0.CO;2. 

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