{{Short description|Extinct family of gastropods}} {{Automatic_taxobox | name = Metacerithiidae | fossil_range = {{fossil range|145.5|55.8|ref=<ref>[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=120328 "†family Metacerithiidae Cossmann 1906 (snail)"]. Fossilworks, accessed 14 July 2016.</ref>}} | image = Metacerithium.jpg | image_caption = ''Metacerithium balticum'' fossil at the Geological Museum, Copenhagen. | taxon = Metacerithiidae | authority =Cossmann, 1906 |synonyms= † Terebrellidae <small>Delpey, 1941</small> (invalid: type genus a junior homonym ) }}
'''Metacerithiidae''' is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Campaniloidea.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Bouchet, P. |author2=Rocroi, J.-P. |name-list-style=amp | year = 2005 | title = Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families | journal = Malacologia | volume =47 | issue = 1–2 | pages = | issn = | doi = }}</ref>
According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Metacerithiidae has no subfamilies.
==Genera== Genera within the family Metacerithiidae include: * † ''Diatrypesis'' <small>Tomlin, 1929</small> * † ''Metacerithium'' <small>Cossmann, 1906</small><ref>Cossmann (1906). ''Essais Paléoconch.'' '''7''': 54.</ref> - the type genus * † ''Nerineopsis'' <small>Cossmann, 1906</small> ;Synonyms: * † ''Terebrella'' <small>Andreae, 1887</small> : synonym of † ''Diatrypesis'' <small>Tomlin, 1929</small> (invalid: junior homonym of Terebrella Maltzan, 1887; Trypetes Tomlin, 1929, is a replacement name) * † ''Trypetes'' <small>Tomlin, 1929</small> : synonym of † ''Diatrypesis'' <small>Tomlin, 1929</small> (invalid: junior homonym of Trypetes Schenck, 1859; Diatrypesis is a replacement name)
== References == {{Reflist}} * Delpey, G. (1941). Gastéropodes marins. Paléontologie, stratigraphie. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France. new ser., 19(3−4), Mémoire 43: 144 pp., 28 pls.
==External links== {{Commons category|Metacerithiidae}} * [https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36852315 Cossmann, M. (1906). Essais de paléoconchologie comparée, Septième livraison. Paris, The author and de Rudeval. 261 pp., 14 pls.]
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Category:Gastropod families Category:Sorbeoconcha Category:Taxa named by Maurice Cossmann
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