Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Neritimorpha
Ordo: Cycloneritida
Superfamilia: Neritoidea
Familia: Neritidae
Genus: Velates
Velates is an extinct genus of marine gastropod mollusks belonging to the family Neritidae.
These snails lived from Paleocene to the Miocene (age range: from 58.7 to 11.608 million years ago). Fossil shells within this genus have been found all over the world.[2]
Species
Species within this genus include:[2]
† Velates balkanicus Bontscheff, 1896
† Velates californicus Vokes, 1935
† Velates perversus Gmelin, 1791
† Velates rogeri Abbass, 1967
† Velates rugatus Abbass, 1967
† Velates tebanensis Abbass, 1967
† Velates vizcainoensis Cushing Woods & Saul, 1986
† Velates vokesi Cooke, 1946
Description
These snails had a heavy, oval shell reaching a length of about 30 millimetres (1.2 in). The earliest regular windings are visible at the top of the shell.
References
Montfort (1810). Conchyliologie systématique 2: 354.
Paleobiology Database
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Velates.
Cyril Walker & David Ward (1993) - Fossielen: Sesam Natuur Handboeken, Bosch & Keuning, Baarn. ISBN 90-246-4924-2
ALAN J. CUSHING WOODS AND L. R. SAUL NEW NERITIDAE FROM SOUTHWESTERN NORTH AMERICA
István Főzy, István Szente, Gareth Dyke Gastropod of the Genus Velates from the Florida Eocene
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