{{Short description|Extinct family of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Velainellidae | authority = {{interlanguage link|Gaston-Casimir Vasseur|fr|lt=Vasseur}}, 1880 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = * ''Velainella'' }}
'''Velainellidae''' is a very small taxonomic family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Trochoidea, the top snails, turban snails and their allies.
==Genera== This family contains only one genus: the Eocene genus '''''Velainella''''', named by Vasseur 1880 and found in France.
==Description== ''Velainella'' has a long, narrow, almost straight-side shell with a smooth-lipped oval aperture.
==Taxonomy changes== Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005 included the Velainellidae in the vetigastropod superfamily Trochoidea, leaving the rank of the Vetigastropoda undecided. Previously W. F. Ponder and A. Warén 1988 put the Velainellidae in the Loxonematoidea (Koken 1889) a superfamily in the Mesogastropoda, Earlier, J. B. Knight, et al., 1960 in the Treatise included the Velainellidae, with ''Vellainella'', in the Trochacea, as does Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005, but within the Archaeogastropoda. Trochacea is the original spelling for what is now Trochoidea.
== References == *J.Brookes Knight, et al. 1960. Systematic Descriptions (of gastropods); Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part I, Mollusca 1. Geological Soc of America and University of Kansas Press, 1960. *[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=62754 Velainellidae -Paleodb]
==External links== * [http://www.fossilshells.nl/frbritlutgast080.html An image of ''Velainella columnaris'']
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Category:Gastropod families Category:Trochoidea (superfamily)
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