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Cerithiinae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	105589	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=105589

Rank

subfamily (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Sorbeoconcha : Cerithiidae : Cerithiinae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Gastropoda	Cuvier 1797
order	Sorbeoconcha	Ponder and Lindberg 1997
superfamily	Cerithioidea	(Férussac 1819)
family	Cerithiidae
subfamily	Cerithiinae	Fleming 1822

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Cerithiinae	subfamily	belongs to Cerithiadae	stated with evidence	MacNeil, 1960
Cerithiinae	subfamily	belongs to Cerithiidae	stated without evidence	Givens and Kennedy, 1976
Cerithiinae	subfamily	belongs to Cerithiadae	stated with evidence	Harzhauser, 2004

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

282

Extant Size (PBDB)

48 (17%)

First Recorded Appearance

237 - 228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic

Motility

actively mobile (based on Cerithiidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

grazer (based on Cerithiidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

M. Harzhauser. 2004. Oligocene gastropod faunas for the Eastern Mediterranean (Mesohellenic Trough/Greece and Esfahan-Sirjan Basin/Central Iran). Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 248:93-181

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Cerithium genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1,020	237 Ma Middle Triassic	0 Ma Extant
Clypeomorus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	48	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Colina genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	10	47.8 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Druidwilsonia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	61.6 Ma Paleocene	61.6 Ma Paleocene
Gourmya genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	14	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Rhinoclavis genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	383	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Voysa ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	67	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Wendella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	61.6 Ma Paleocene	61.6 Ma Paleocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1822	Cerithiinae Fleming
1960	Cerithiinae MacNeil p. 40
1972	Cerithiinae Hoerle p. 3
1976	Cerithiinae Givens and Kennedy p. 964
1982	Rhinoclavinae Gründel
1984	Cerithiinae Squires p. 20

Year	Name and Author
1987	Cerithiinae Squires p. 29
2004	Cerithiinae Harzhauser p. 114
2005	Cerithiinae Bouchet et al. p. 248
2007	Cerithiinae Harzhauser p. 89
2009	Cerithiinae Harzhauser et al. p. 339340340

References

Harzhauser M. (2004) Oligocene gastropod faunas for the Eastern Mediterranean (Mesohellenic Trough/Greece and Esfahan-Sirjan Basin/Central Iran), Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 248, 93-181

MacNeil F. S. (1960) Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 339, 1-148

Hoerle S. E. (1972) Cerithiidae and Potamididae (Mollusca: Gastropoda0 from the Chipola Formation of northwestern Florida, Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 10 1, 1-22

Givens C. R., Kennedy M. P. (1976) Middle Eocene mollusks from northern San Diego County, California, Journal of Paleontology 50 5, 954-975

Squires R. L. (1984) Megapaleontology of the Eocene Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, California, Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 350, 1-76

Squires R. L. (1987) Eocene molluscan paleontology of the Whitaker Peak area, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California, Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 388, 1-93

Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P, et al (2005) A nomenclator and classification of gastropod family-group names, Malacologia 47 1-2, 1-368

Harzhauser M. (2007) Oligocene and Aquitanian gastropod faunas from the Sultanate of Oman and their biogeographic implications for the western Indo-Pacific., Palaeontographica Abteilung A 280, 75-121

Harzhauser M., Euter M., et al (2009) Oligocene and Early Miocene gastropods from Kutch (NW India) document an early biogeographic switch from Western Tethys to Indo-Pacific, Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 83, 333-372

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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