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Marmolatella ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	8963	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=8963

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neritoina : Delphinulopsidae : Marmolatella

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	Neritimorpha	Golikov and Starobogatov 1975
order	Cycloneritimorpha	Bandel and Frýda 1999
order	Neritoina
superfamily	Neritopsoidea	Gray 1847
family	Delphinulopsidae	Blodgett et al. 2001
subfamily	Platychilininae	Bandel 2007
genus	Marmolatella	Kittl 1894

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Marmolatella	subgenus	belongs to Naticopsis	stated with evidence	Knight et al., 1960
Marmolatella	genus	belongs to Archaeogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Marmolatella	genus	belongs to Platychilininae	stated with evidence	Bandel, 2007

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

359 - 347 Ma
Paleozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

170 - 168 Ma
Middle Jurassic

Motility

actively mobile (based on Gastropoda)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

E. Kittl. 1894. Die Gastropoden der Schichten von St. Cassian der südalpinen Trias. III. Theil. Annalen des Kaiserlich-Königlischen Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums 9:143-277

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Marmolatella ambiguus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	339 Ma Carboniferous	339 Ma Carboniferous
Natica ampliata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	10	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	336 Ma Carboniferous
Marmolatella complanata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	5	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	242 Ma Middle Triassic
Marmolatella fenestrata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	3	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Marmolatella gigas ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Marmolatella implicata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Marmolatella iordanae ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Marmolatella obtusangula ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Marmolatella picta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	242 Ma Middle Triassic	242 Ma Middle Triassic
Marmolatella profunda ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Marmolatella sigaretiformis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	4	345 Ma Carboniferous	269 Ma Permian
Marmolatella stomatia ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	2	242 Ma Middle Triassic	242 Ma Middle Triassic
Naticopsis subovata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	9	304 Ma Carboniferous	272 Ma Permian
Marmolatella telleri ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	3	237 Ma Middle Triassic	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Naticopsis (Marmolatella) applanata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	10	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	242 Ma Middle Triassic
Naticopsis (Marmolatella) imoensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	331 Ma Carboniferous	331 Ma Carboniferous
Naticopsis (Marmolatella) macgordoni ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	331 Ma Carboniferous	331 Ma Carboniferous
Naticopsis (Marmolatella) plana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	4	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1894	Naticopsis (Marmolatella) Kittl p. 143
1960	Naticopsis (Marmolatella) Knight et al. p. 276
1966	Naticopsis (Marmolatella) Batten p. 65
2002	Marmolatella Sepkoski, Jr.
2007	Marmolatella Bandel p. 237

References

Kittl E. Die Gastropoden der Schichten von St. Cassian der südalpinen Trias. III. Theil, Annalen des Kaiserlich-Königlischen Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums 9, 143-277

Knight J. B., Cox L. R., et al (1960) Systematic descriptions, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Mollusca I 1, 169-339

Batten R. L. (1966) The Lower Carboniferous gastropod fauna from the Hotwells Limestone of Compton Martin, Somerset. Part II, Palaeontographical Society Monographs 119 513, 53-109

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

Bandel K. (2007) Description and classification of Late Triassic Neritimorpha (Gastropoda, Mollusca) from the St Cassian Formation, Italian Alps, Bulletin of Geosciences 82 3, 215-274

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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