Craspedopoma

Craspedopoma is a genus of land snails, considered either in the family Craspedopomatidae (it is the type genus in this case) or in Maizaniidae.

Craspedopoma
Temporal range: 7.246–0 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:
Cyclophoroidea
Family:
Craspedopomatidae or Maizaniidae
Genus:
Craspedopoma

Species
  • †Craspedopoma conoidale Michaud 1855
  • †Craspedopoma elegans Miller, 1907[2]
  • †Craspedopoma handmanni Troll, 1907
  • Craspedopoma hespericum (Morelet et Drouet, 1857)
  • †Craspedopoma leptopomoides (Reuss, 1868)
  • Craspedopoma monizianum
  • Craspedopoma mucronatum Menke, K.T., 1830
  • Craspedopoma neritoides (Lowe, 1860)

The genus is extant but there is at least four fossil species. C. conoidale is from the Miocene of Italy. C. elegans is from the Ulm region of Germany.

References
  1. Descriptions of 38 new species of land-shells, in the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. L Pfeiffer, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1847
  2. Miller, K. (1907). Alttertiäre Land- und Süßwasserschnecken der Ulmer Gegend. Jahreshefte des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg. volume 63, page 451, pl. 9, fig. 1


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