{{Short description|Extinct family of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Cirridae | authority = Cossmann, 1916 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = }}
'''Cirridae''' is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Porcellioidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
These snails date from the Mesozoic era, and are sinistral in their shell-coiling.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-670580401.html |title=Nacre in Late Cretaceous Sensuitrochus Ferreri-Implications for the Taxonomic Affinities of the Cirridae (Gastropoda) – Journal of Paleontology |website=|access-date=14 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102114201/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-670580401.html |archive-date=2 November 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
== Taxonomy == This family consists of three following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005): * Cirrinae Cossmann, 1916 * Platyacrinae Wenz, 1938 – synonym: Hesperocirrinae O. Haas, 1953 * Cassianocirrinae Bandel, 1993
==Genera and species== Genera and species within the family ''Cirridae'' include: * ''Alaskacirrus'' Frýda & Blodgett, 1998<ref name="Frýda 1998"/> -=– from the Devonian of west-central Alaska ** ''Alaskacirrus bandeli'' Frýda & Blodgett, 1998<ref name="Frýda 1998">Frýda J. & Blodgett R. B. (March 1998). "Two new cirroidean genera (Vetigastropoda, Archaeogastropoda) from the Emsian (Late Early Devonian) of Alaska with notes on the early phylogeny of Cirroidea". ''Journal of Paleontology'' '''72'''(2): 265–273. [http://jpaleontol.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/72/2/265 abstract]</ref>
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Category:Gastropod families Category:Vetigastropoda Category:Taxa named by Maurice Cossmann
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