Rimella is a genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Rimellidae within the Stromboidea, the true conchs and their allies.Bouchet, P. (2015). Rimella. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=578851 on 2016-03-20
Species in this genus are extinct and were found from the Paleocene to the Oligocene of Europe.
Species Species within the genus Rimella include: † Rimella cazesi Pacaud & Pons, 2015 † Rimella duplicicosta Cossmann, 1901 † Rimella fissurella (Linnaeus, 1758) † Rimella gomezi Pacaud & Pons, 2015 † Rimella gracilis Ma & Zhang, 1996 † Rimella labrosa (G. B. Sowerby I, 1823) † Rimella mexcala Kiel & Perrilliat, 2001 † Rimella obesa Cuvillier, 1935 † Rimella rimosa (Solander, 1766) † Rimella rokeyae Banerjee & Halder, 2024 † Rimella sandrinae Pacaud & Pons, 2015 Species brought into synonymy Rimella tyleri H. Adams & A. Adams, 1864: synonym of Varicospira tyleri (H. Adams & A. Adams, 1864)
References
External links Rimella fissurella in the Paleobiology Database