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Terebridae

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Hastula sp.

Abbey Wood, Bexley, Greater London, England, UK

Hastula sp.

Abbey Wood, Bexley, Greater London, England, UK

Hastula sp.

Abbey Wood, Bexley, Greater London, England, UK

Description

The Terebridae, commonly referred to as auger shells or auger snails, is a group or family of small to large predatory marine gastropods.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2685	https://www.gbif.org/species/2685
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	62493	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=62493

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Terebridae

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	Conoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Terebridae	Mörch 1852

Common Name

auger snail

Scientific Name

Terebridae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Terebridae	family	belongs to Toxoglossa	stated without evidence	Martin, 1904
Terebridae	family	belongs to Neogastropoda	stated without evidence	Addicott, 1970
Terebridae	family	belongs to Conacea	stated with evidence	Squires, 1984
Terebridae	family	belongs to Volutacea	stated with evidence	Ward and Blackwelder, 1987
Terebridae	family	belongs to Conoidea	stated with evidence	Ponder and Warén, 1988
Terebridae	family	belongs to Conacea	stated without evidence	Beu et al., 1990
Terebridae	family	belongs to Conoidea	stated with evidence	Ward, 1992
Terebridae	family	belongs to Conoidea	implied	Wilson, 1994
Terebridae	family	belongs to Conoidea	stated without evidence	Todd, 2001
Terebridae	family	belongs to Conoidea	stated with evidence	Bouchet et al., 2005
Terebridae	family	belongs to Neogastropoda	stated without evidence	Wienrich and Janssen, 2007

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

218

Extant Size (PBDB)

46 (21%)

First Recorded Appearance

66.0 - 61.6 Ma
Paleocene

Motility

actively mobile

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore

Ecospace Comments

LIFE HISTORY: Predatory carnivores according to Todd (2001).

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

P. L. Beesley. 1998. Mollusca: the southern synthesis. Fauna of Australia 5

Common Name(s)

Pfriemenschnecken, Schraubenschnecken, Auger Shells, Auger Snails, Augers, タケノコガイ, Auger Snail

Wikipedia

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

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Pervicaciinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Terebrinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		1,353	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Cinguloterebra genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Clathroterebra genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Duplicaria genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		30	37.2 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Euterebra genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gemmaterebra ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Granuliterebra genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Hastula genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Hastula genus	listed (PBDB)		90	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Hastulopsis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Impages genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kaweka ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Laevihastula ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		14	16.0 Ma Miocene	7.25 Ma Miocene
Mirula genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Muriellopsis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Myurella genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Oxymeris genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Paraterebra genus	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Pellifronia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Perirhoe genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pristiterebra genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Punctoterebra genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spineoterebra ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	20.4 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Strioterebrum genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		628	33.9 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Terebra genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		725	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Terenolla genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Triplostephanus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zeacuminia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		25	41.3 Ma Eocene	12.7 Ma Miocene

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Acusidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Acusidae
Pervicaciidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Pervicaciidae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1852	Terebridae Mörch
1904	Terebridae Martin p. 137
1970	Terebridae Addicott p. 124
1984	Terebridae Squires p. 39
1987	Terebridae Ward and Blackwelder p. 132
1988	Terebridae Ponder and Warén p. 308
1990	Terebridae Beu et al. p. 417
1992	Terebridae Ward p. 136

Year	Name and Author
1994	Terebridae Wilson p. 218
1998	Terebridae Beesley p. 850
2001	Terebridae Todd
2004	Terebridae Harzhauser p. 142
2005	Terebridae Bouchet et al. p. 256
2007	Terebridae Harzhauser
2007	Terebridae Wienrich and Janssen p. 721

References

Beesley P. L. (1998) Mollusca: the southern synthesis, Fauna of Australia 5

Martin G. C. (1904) Gastropoda, Maryland Geological Survey Miocene Text, 131-269

Addicott W.O. (1970) Miocene Gastropods and Biostratigraphy of the Kern River Area, California, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 642, 1-172

Squires R. L. (1984) Megapaleontology of the Eocene Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, California, Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 350, 1-76

Ward L. W., Blackwelder B.W. (1987) Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at Lee Creek Mine, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 61, 113-283

Ponder W. F., Warén A. (1988) Appendix: classification of the Caenogastropoda and Heterostropha - a list of the family-group names and higher taxa, Malacological Review Suppl. 4, 288-326

Beu A. G., Maxwell P.A., et al (1990) Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand, New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 58

Ward L. W. (1992) Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America, Virginia Museum of Natural History 2

Wilson B. (1994) , Australian Marine Shells 2

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

Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P, et al (2005) A nomenclator and classification of gastropod family-group names, Malacologia 47 1-2, 1-368

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

Wienrich G., Janssen R. (2007) Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein). Band 4 Gastropoda ab Mitridae, Backhuys Publishers BV Leiden 4, 643-954

Bratcher T. & Cernohorsky W.O. (1987). Living terebras of the world. A monograph of the recent Terebridae of the world. American Malacologists, Melbourne, Florida & Burlington, Massachusetts. 240pp. - via World Register of Marine Species

Terryn, Y. (2007). Terebridae: A Collectors Guide. Conchbooks & Natural Art. 59pp + plates. - via World Register of Marine Species

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47(1-2): 1-397. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - 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)

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