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Amaea

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2300461	https://www.gbif.org/species/2300461
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	9453	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=9453

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Epitoniidae : Amaea

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

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
-	Ptenoglossa
superfamily	Epitonioidea	(Berry 1910)
family	Epitoniidae	Berry 1910
genus	Amaea	H.Adams & A.Adams 1853

Scientific Name

Amaea H.Adams & A.Adams, 1853

Name Published In

Gen. Moll., 1

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Amaea	genus	belongs to Epitoniidae	stated with evidence	MacNeil, 1960
Amaea	genus	belongs to Scalidae	stated without evidence	Abbass, 1967
Amaea	genus	belongs to Epitoniidae	stated with evidence	Dushane, 1988
Amaea	genus	belongs to Epitoniidae	stated without evidence	Wienrich, 2001
Amaea	genus	belongs to Neotaenioglossa	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Amaea	genus	belongs to Epitoniidae	stated with evidence	Rosenberg et al., 2006

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

5 (42%)

First Recorded Appearance

122 - 112 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Motility

slow-moving (based on Epitoniidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Epitoniidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite, low Mg calcite (based on Epitoniidae)

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	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Amaea (Acrilloscala) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		3	47.8 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Amaea (Amaea) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		2	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Amaea (Discoscala) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		4	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Amaea (Undiscala) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		21	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	28.1 Ma Oligocene
Amaea africana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea alistairi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea apexroseus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea arabica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea aspicienda species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea boucheti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea brunneopicta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea cancellata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	5.33 Ma Miocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Amaea cerea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea contexta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea decussata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea deroyae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea diluta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea edwilsoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea elegantula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea ferminiana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea flammea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea foulisi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea gazeoides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea ghorabensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea globularis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea gracillima species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea gratissima species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea grossicingulata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea guineensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea hedleyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea iwaotakii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea kushimotensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea lennyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea magnifica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea marialuisae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea marteli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea mathildona species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea mathildopsis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea minor species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea mitchelli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea natalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea nebulodermata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea niasensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea noguchii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea ogaitoi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea optata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea optima species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea oyasionensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea pompholyx species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea pulcherrima species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea retifera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea rubigosola species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea scaberrima species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea secunda species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea sericogazea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea setonaikaiensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea solangeae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea splendida species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea staminea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea sulcata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea tehuanarum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea thielei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea tosaensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amaea youngi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Scalina Conrad, 1865	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Epitoniidae : *Scalina*
Discoscala Sacco, 1890	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Epitoniidae : *Discoscala*
Amcaea Stoliczka, 1868	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Epitoniidae : *Amcaea*
Textiscala de Boury, 1911	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Epitoniidae : *Textiscala*
Ferminoscala Dall, 1908	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Epitoniidae : *Ferminoscala*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1853	Amaea Adams and Adams
1960	Amaea MacNeil p. 44
1967	Amaea Abbass p. 41
1988	Amaea Dushane p. 52
2001	Amaea Todd
2001	Amaea Wienrich p. 450
2002	Amaea Sepkoski, Jr.
2006	Amaea Rosenberg et al.

References

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

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

Abbass H. L. (1967) A monograph on the Egyptian Paleocene and Eocene gastropods, United Arab Republic, Geological Survey-Geological Museum, Palaeontological Series, Monograph 4, 1-154

Dushane H. (1988) Pliocene Epitoniidae of the Esmeraldas beds northwestern Ecuador (Mollusca: Gastropoda), Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 21, 51-58

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

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

Rosenberg G., Ponder W., et al (2006) A Biotic Database of Indo-Pacific Marine Mollusks doi:http://data.acnatsci.org/obis

Boury E. (de) (1909). Catalogue des sous-genres de Scalidae. Journal de Conchyliologie, 57: 255-258 - via World Register of Marine Species

Brown L.G. & Neville B.D. (2015). Catalog of the recent taxa of the families Epitoniidae and Nystiellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) with a bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature. Zootaxa. 3907(1): 1-188. - via World Register of Marine Species

Aphia2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Gen. Moll., 1 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus (authority adjusted) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al., 1998: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26. 526. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

SN2000/Boss, 1982 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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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