Holopea

Holopea is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, Paleozoic gastropod mollusks in the family Holopeidae.

Holopea
Temporal range: Ordovician - Carboniferous
Holopea praestans from Czech Republic, at the National Museum (Prague)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
Family:
†Holopeidae
Genus:
†Holopea

Synonyms

Cirropsis Perner, 1903
Haplospira Koken, 1897
Litiopsis Salter, 1866
Staurospira Perner, 1907
Tortilla Perner, 1903

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

References
  1. 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


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