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Melongena sp.

La Chapelle-en-Serval, Senlis, Oise, Hauts-de-France, France

Melongena sp.

La Chapelle-en-Serval, Senlis, Oise, Hauts-de-France, France

Melongena sp.

La Chapelle-en-Serval, Senlis, Oise, Hauts-de-France, France

Description

Melongena is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Melongenidae, the crown conches and their allies.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2302942	https://www.gbif.org/species/2302942
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	11341	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=11341

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Melongenidae : Melongena

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
subclass	Prosobranchia	Milne-Edwards 1848
superorder	Caenogastropoda	Cox 1959
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Buccinoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Melongenidae	Gill 1867
subfamily	Melongeninae
genus	Melongena	Schumacher 1817

Scientific Name

Melongena Schumacher, 1817

Name Published In

Schumacher, Chrétien F. 1817. Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenhague.: ; 1-287; pls. i-xxii.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Melongena	subgenus	belongs to Pyrula	stated with evidence	Martin, 1895
Melongena	genus	belongs to Fusidae	stated without evidence	Bohm, 1926
Melongena	genus	belongs to Buccinidae	stated without evidence	Olsson, 1931
Melongena	genus	belongs to Melongenidae	stated without evidence	Oostingh, 1935
Melongena	genus	belongs to Xancidae	stated without evidence	Mukerjee, 1939
Melongena	genus	belongs to Melongenidae	stated with evidence	Gardner, 1947
Melongena	genus	belongs to Buccinidae	stated with evidence	Marks, 1951
Melongena	genus	belongs to Busyconidae	stated with evidence	Olsson and Harbison, 1953
Melongena	genus	belongs to Pseudolivinae	stated without evidence	Rivera, 1957
Melongena	genus	belongs to Busyconidae	stated without evidence	DuBar, 1958
Melongena	genus	belongs to Melongenidae	stated with evidence	Woodring, 1964
Melongena	genus	belongs to Neogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Melongena	genus	belongs to Melongenidae	stated with evidence	Harzhauser, 2004
Melongena	genus	belongs to Melongeninae	stated with evidence	Landau and Marques da Silva, 2010

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

11 (22%)

First Recorded Appearance

372 - 359 Ma
Late/Upper Devonian

Motility

actively mobile (based on Melongenidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Melongenidae)

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/Melongena

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Melongena (Myristica) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Melongena (Pyrula) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		44	372 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	0 Ma Extant
Melongena (Rexmela) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		3	0.78 Ma Pleistocene	0.78 Ma Pleistocene
Cassidea acanthina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Fusus laxecarinatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Galeodes cornutus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		12	38.0 Ma Eocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Galeodes incornutus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Melongena acanthina ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	33.9 Ma Oligocene	28.1 Ma Oligocene
Melongena aegyptiaca species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Melongena belknapi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Melongena bispinosa species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	0.78 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Melongena californica ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Melongena candelariana species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Melongena charanalensis species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Melongena consors ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		81	23.0 Ma Miocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Melongena corona species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		14	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Melongena eyssautieri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Melongena galeodes ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		4	23.0 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Melongena gauthieri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Melongena gigas ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	11.6 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Melongena incornuta ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	28.1 Ma Oligocene	28.1 Ma Oligocene
Melongena lactea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Melongena lainei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		13	33.9 Ma Oligocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Melongena laxecarinatus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Melongena melongena species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		35	28.4 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Melongena murifactor species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Melongena nilotica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Melongena orthacantha ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Melongena patula species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Melongena polygonalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Melongena praecursor species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Melongena praemelongena ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Melongena propatulus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Melongena proteiformis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Melongena pseudobucephala ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	28.1 Ma Oligocene	28.1 Ma Oligocene
Melongena sculpturata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Melongena venezuelana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Melongena woodwardi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Pyrula consors species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pyrula cornuta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pyrula pseudobucephala species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Galeodes Röding, 1798	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Melongenidae : *Galeodes*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1798	Galeodes Röding
1817	Melongena Schumacher
1895	Pyrula (Melongena) Martin p. 92
1926	Melongena Bohm p. 68
1931	Melongena Olsson p. 101
1935	Melongena Oostingh p. 84
1939	Melongena Mukerjee p. 64
1947	Melongena Gardner p. 458
1951	Melongena Marks p. 388
1953	Melongena Olsson and Harbison p. 213

Year	Name and Author
1957	Melongena Rivera p. 184
1958	Melongena DuBar p. 193
1964	Melongena Woodring p. 273
2001	Melongena Harzhauser and Mandic p. 709
2001	Melongena Todd
2002	Melongena Sepkoski, Jr.
2004	Melongena Harzhauser p. 137
2007	Melongena Harzhauser p. 106
2010	Melongena Landau and Marques da Silva p. 77

References

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

Bohm J. (1926) Über Tertiäre versteinerungen von den Bogenfelser diamantfeldern, Beiträge zur geologischen Erforschung der deutschen Schutzgebiete 2, 55-87

Olsson A. A. (1931) Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 4, The Peruvian Oligocene, Bulletins of American Paleontology 17 63

Oostingh C. H. (1935) Die Mollusken des Pliozäns von Boemiajoe (Java), Dienst van den Mijnbouw in Nederlandsch-Indië Wetenschappelijke Mededeelingen 26, 1-247

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

Marks J. G. (1951) Miocene stratigraphy and paleontology of Southwestern Ecuador, Bulletins of American Paleontology 33 139, 1-448

Olsson A. A., Harbison A. (1953) Pliocene Mollusca of Southern Florida, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Monograph 8, 1-457

Rivera R. (1957) Moluscos fosiles de la Formacion Paracas, Dpto. de Ica, Sociedad Geologica del Peru Primer Congreso Nacional de Geologia Anales - Parte II 32, 165-219

DuBar J. R (1958) Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Late Neogene strata of the Caloosahatchee River area of southern Florida, Florida Geological Survey Bulletin 40, 1-267

Woodring W. P. (1964) Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Columbellidae to Volutidae)., United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306 C, 241-297

Harzhauser M., Mandic O. (2001) Late Oligocene gastropods and bivalves from the Lower and Upper Austrian Molasse Basin, Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Schriftenreihe der Erdwissenschaftlichen Komimissionen 14, 671-795

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

Harzhauser M. (2004) Oligocene gastropod faunas for the Eastern Mediterranean (Mesohellenic Trough/Greece and Esfahan-Sirjan Basin/Central Iran), Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 248, 93-181

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

Landau B., Marques da Silva C. (2010) Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy, Palaeontos 19, 1-221

Aphia2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006 - 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

Ess. Vers test., 64 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Ruppert et al., 2004 - 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)

Schumacher C.F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls. - via World Register of Marine Species

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