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Vexillum (Costellaria)

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	10977	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=10977

Rank

subgenus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Costellariidae : Vexillum : Vexillum (Costellaria)

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
subclass	Prosobranchia	Milne-Edwards 1848
superorder	Caenogastropoda	Cox 1959
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Muricoidea	de Costa 1776
family	Costellariidae	MacDonald 1860
genus	Vexillum	Röding 1798
subgenus	Vexillum (Costellaria)	Swainson 1840

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Vexillum (Costellaria)	subgenus	belongs to Vexillum	second hand	Swainson, 1840
Vexillum (Costellaria)	subgenus	belongs to Mitra	stated with evidence	Boettger, 1906
Vexillum (Costellaria)	subgenus	belongs to Turricula	stated with evidence	Maury, 1917
Vexillum (Costellaria)	subgenus	belongs to Vexillum	stated with evidence	Woodring, 1928
Vexillum (Costellaria)	genus	belongs to Neogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Vexillum (Costellaria)	subgenus	belongs to Vexillum	stated with evidence	Mandic et al., 2002

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (14%)

First Recorded Appearance

48.6 - 37.2 Ma
Eocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Costellariidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Costellariidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Turricula (Costellaria) bullennewtoni ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	4	16.0 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Vexillum (Costellaria) cryptidulum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	3.60 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Vexillum (Costellaria) dasaplurum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	3	3.60 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Vexillum (Costellaria) javanum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	3	48.6 Ma Eocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Vexillum (Costellaria) leurum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	3.60 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Vexillum (Costellaria) micramadum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	3	3.60 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1840	Vexillum (Costellaria) Swainson
1906	Mitra (Costellaria) Boettger p. 10
1917	Turricula (Costellaria) Maury p. 77
1928	Vexillum (Costellaria) Woodring p. 244
1977	Vexillum (Costellaria) Ladd p. 63
1982	Vexillum (Costellaria) Ladd p. 54
2001	Vexillum (Costellaria) Todd
2002	Vexillum (Costellaria) Mandic et al. p. 300
2002	Costellaria Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Maury C. J. (1917) Santo Domingo type sections and fossils, Bulletins of American Paleontology 5 30, 1-43

Woodring W. P. (1928) Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results, Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies

Ladd H. S. (1977) Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Eratoidae through Harpidae), United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 533, 1-84

Ladd H. S. (1982) Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Volutidae through Terebridae), United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1171, 1-100

Todd J. A. (2001) Systematic list of gastropods in the Panama Paleontology Project collections

Mandic O., Harzhauser M., et al (2002) The paleoenvironment of an early Middle Miocene Paratethys sequence in NE Austria with special emphasis on mollusks and foraminifera, Geobios 24, 193-206 doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(02)00059-1

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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