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Description

Capulus is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Capulidae, the cap snails.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capulus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2291216	https://www.gbif.org/species/2291216
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	9594	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=9594

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Cycloneritida : Delphinulopsidae : Capulus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Capulidae : Capulus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

doubtful

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
superorder	Hypsogastropoda
infraorder	Littorinimorpha	Golikov and Starobogtov 1975
superfamily	Capuloidea	Fleming 1822
family	Capulidae	Fleming 1822
genus	Capulus	Monfort 1810

Scientific Name

Capulus

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Capulus	genus	belongs to Capulidae	stated with evidence	Woodring, 1928
Capulus	genus	belongs to Capulidae	stated without evidence	Mukerjee, 1939
Capulus	genus	belongs to Capulidae	stated with evidence	Gardner, 1947
Capulus	genus	belongs to Capulidae	implied	Wilson, 1993
Capulus	genus	belongs to Capulidae	stated without evidence	Wienrich, 2001
Capulus	genus	belongs to Neotaenioglossa	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Capulus	genus	belongs to Capulidae	stated with evidence	Harzhauser, 2007

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

6 (18%)

First Recorded Appearance

431 - 427 Ma
Silurian

Motility

facultatively mobile, attached (based on Capulidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Capulidae)

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

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capulus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Capulus (Brocchia) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		4	33.9 Ma Oligocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Capulus (Capulus) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		6	20.4 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Capulus (Zinolia) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		1	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Capulus americanus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		27	47.8 Ma Eocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Capulus anceps ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	28.1 Ma Oligocene	28.1 Ma Oligocene
Capulus angustus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	290 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Capulus apollinis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Capulus circinatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Capulus complicatus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	290 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Capulus cyrtocera ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Capulus epicranum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	3.60 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Capulus fenestratus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Capulus gatunensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Capulus haliotis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	431 Ma Silurian	431 Ma Silurian
Capulus hanieli ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Capulus humilis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Capulus hungaricus species	listed (PBDB)		24	20.4 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Capulus javanus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Capulus junghuhni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Capulus lissus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Capulus lius ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	3.60 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Capulus muensteri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Capulus pretiosus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	290 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Capulus selcanus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Acroculia sigmoidale ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Capulus silverthorni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	232 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	232 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Capulus sundaicus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Capulus tortus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	290 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Capulus uncinatus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	1.63 Ma Pleistocene	1.63 Ma Pleistocene
Capulus ungaricus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		14	47.8 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Capulus unguis species	listed (PBDB)		2	3.60 Ma Pliocene	0 Ma Extant
Capulus varians ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Capulus welteri ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1810	Capulus Monfort
1928	Capulus Woodring p. 371
1939	Capulus Mukerjee p. 37
1947	Capulus Gardner p. 569
1972	Capulus Ladd p. 54
1982	Capulus Ladd p. 35
1993	Capulus Wilson p. 165
2001	Capulus Wienrich p. 420
2002	Capulus Sepkoski, Jr.
2007	Capulus Harzhauser p. 105

References

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

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

Mukerjee P. N. (1939) Fossil fauna from the Tertiary of Garo Hills, Assam, Palaeontologia Indica 28 1, 1-101

Gardner J. R. (1947) The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 142A-H, 1-709

Ladd H. S. (1972) Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Turritellidae through Strombidae), United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 532, 1-79

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

Wilson B. (1993) , Australian Marine Shells 1

Wienrich G. (2001) Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein), Gastropoda bis Cancellariidae 3, 385-639

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

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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