# Metacerithiidae

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{{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](/source/Fossilworks), accessed 14 July 2016.</ref>}}
| image = Metacerithium.jpg
| image_caption = ''[Metacerithium](/source/Metacerithium) balticum'' fossil at the Geological Museum, Copenhagen.
| taxon = Metacerithiidae
| authority =[Cossmann](/source/Maurice_Cossmann), 1906
|synonyms= † Terebrellidae <small>Delpey, 1941</small> (invalid: type genus a junior homonym )
}}

'''Metacerithiidae''' is an [extinct](/source/extinct) [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) of [fossil](/source/fossil) [sea snail](/source/sea_snail)s, [marine](/source/marine_(ocean)) [gastropod](/source/gastropod) [mollusc](/source/mollusc)s in the superfamily [Campaniloidea](/source/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)](/source/Taxonomy_of_the_Gastropoda_(Bouchet_%26_Rocroi%2C_2005)) the family Metacerithiidae has no subfamilies.

==Genera==
Genera within the family Metacerithiidae include:
* † ''[Diatrypesis](/source/Diatrypesis)'' <small>Tomlin, 1929</small> 
* † ''[Metacerithium](/source/Metacerithium)'' <small>Cossmann, 1906</small><ref>Cossmann (1906). ''Essais Paléoconch.'' '''7''': 54.</ref> - the type genus
* † ''[Nerineopsis](/source/Nerineopsis)'' <small>Cossmann, 1906</small> 
;Synonyms:
* † ''Terebrella'' <small>Andreae, 1887</small> : synonym of † ''[Diatrypesis](/source/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](/source/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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