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Saleniidae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	134854	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=134854

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Echinodermata : Echinoidea : Salenioida : Saleniidae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ambulacraria
phylum	Echinodermata	Klein 1754
subphylum	Echinozoa	von Zittel 1895
class	Echinoidea
subclass	Euechinoidea	Bronn 1860
superorder	Acroechinoidea
-	Carinacea	Kroh and Smith 2010
-	Calycina
order	Salenioida
family	Saleniidae	Agassiz 1838

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Saleniidae	family	belongs to Echinoidea	stated without evidence	Haime, 1849
Saleniidae	family	belongs to Calycina	stated without evidence	Clark and Twitchell, 1915
Saleniidae	family	belongs to Hemicidaroidea	stated without evidence	Zullo et al., 1964
Saleniidae	family	belongs to Salenioida	stated without evidence	Fell and Pawson, 1966
Saleniidae	family	belongs to Salenioina	stated without evidence	Nisiyama, 1966
Saleniidae	family	belongs to Salenioida	stated with evidence	Geys, 1979
Saleniidae	family	belongs to Salenioida	stated without evidence	Linder et al., 1988
Saleniidae	family	belongs to Calycina	stated with evidence	Smith, 1991
Saleniidae	family	belongs to Salenioida	stated with evidence	Smith, 2006

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

4 (12%)

First Recorded Appearance

161 - 133 Ma
Mesozoic

Environment

marine (based on Echinodermata)

Motility

slow-moving (based on Salenioida)

Vision

limited (based on Echinoidea)

Diet

omnivore (based on Salenioida)

Reproduction

dispersal=water,planktonic (based on Echinodermata)

Ontogeny

accretion,addition of parts (based on Echinodermata)

Taphonomy

high Mg calcite (based on Salenioida)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J.L.R. Agassiz. 1838. Prodromus of a monograph of the Radiata and Echinodermata. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1:30-449

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Saleniinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Saleninae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)
Leptosalenia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	9	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Salenia genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	110	161 Ma Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Salenidia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	29	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Trisalenia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Valsalenia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1849	Saleniidae Haime p. 218
1915	Saleniidae Clark and Twitchell p. 49
1964	Saleniidae Zullo et al. p. 339
1966	Saleniidae Fell and Pawson p. U377
1966	Saleniidae Nisiyama p. 183
1979	Saleniidae Geys p. 298
1982	Saleniidae Geys p. 9

Year	Name and Author
1986	Saleniidae Geys and Jagt p. 94
1988	Saleniidae Linder et al. p. 946
1991	Saleniidae Smith p. 18
1995	Saleniidae Smith p. 139
2006	Saleniidae Smith
2010	Saleniidae Kroh and Smith p. 170

References

Agassiz J.L.R. Prodromus of a monograph of the Radiata and Echinodermata, Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1, 30-449

Haime J. Observations sur la Milnia, nouveau genre de l’ordre des Echinides, Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Troisième Séerie, Zoologie 12, 217-224

Clark W. B., Twitchell M. W. (1915) The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States, United States Geological Survey Bulletin 54, 1-341

Zullo V. A., Kaar R. F., et al (1964) The Echinoid genus Salenia in the Eastern Pacific, Palaeontology 7, 331-349

Fell H. B., Pawson D. L. (1966) Echinacea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology,Part U Echinodermata 3. The Geological Society of America and The University of Kansas Press 2, U367-U440

Nisiyama S. (1966) The echinoid fauna from Japan and adjacent regions, Part I, Palaeontological Society of Japan Special Papers 11, 1-277

Geys J. F. (1979) Salenioid echinoids from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of Belgium and The Netherlands, Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 53, 296-322

Geys J. F. (1982) Regular echinoids from the Turonian and the Coniacian (Upper Cretaceous) of the Mons Basin (Belgium), Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 53, 1-20

Geys J. F., Jagt J. (1986) Additional regular echinoids from the Upper Cretaceous in the Maastricht area (Belgium), Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 60, 93-107

Linder R. A., Durham J. W., et al (1988) New late Oligocene echinoids from the central western cascades of Oregon, Journal of Paleontology 62 6, 945-958

Smith A. B. (1991) Taxonomic descriptions, in Cretaceous echinoids from north-eastern Brazil, Fossils and Strata 31, 1-88

Smith A. B. (1995) Late Campanian-Maastrichtian echinoids from the United Arab Emirates-Oman border region, Bulletin of the Natural History Museum (Geology Series) 51, 121-240

Kroh A., Smith A. B. (2010) The phylogeny and classification of post-Palaeozoic echinoids, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 8 2, 147-212 doi:10.1080/14772011003603556

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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