Lithotrochus

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Lithotrochus
Temporal range: 200–183 
Ma
Early Jurassic
Lithotrochus humboldtii of La Casilda fossil locality from Mulanguiñeu Formation
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Lithotrochus
Conrad, 1855
Type species
Lithotrochus humboldtii
von Buch, 1839
Other species
  • Lithotrochus rothi Damborenea & Ferrari, 2008
Synonyms
List
  • Pleurotomaria humboldtii von Buch, 1839
  • Trochus andinus Möricke, 1894
  • Turritella andii d'Orbigny, 1842

Lithotrochus is a

gastropods mainly known from the Early Jurassic epoch of South America.[1][2][3][4] While long considered endemic to the fossil record of South America, findings from the Pogibshi Formation of Alaska suggest that the genus expanded its paleogeographical range from the Northern Hemisphere to South America during the Jurassic.[5]

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