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Eotomariidae ✝

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Clathrospira sp.

Mount Carroll Quarry, Mount Carroll, Carroll County, Illinois, USA

Clathrospira sp.

Mount Carroll Quarry, Mount Carroll, Carroll County, Illinois, USA

Clathrospira sp.

Mount Carroll Quarry, Mount Carroll, Carroll County, Illinois, USA

Clathrospira sp.

Mount Carroll Quarry, Mount Carroll, Carroll County, Illinois, USA

Clathrospira sp.

Mount Carroll Quarry, Mount Carroll, Carroll County, Illinois, USA

Clathrospira sp.

Mount Carroll Quarry, Mount Carroll, Carroll County, Illinois, USA

Description

Eotomariidae is an extinct family of gastropods in the clade Vetigastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3245210	https://www.gbif.org/species/3245210
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	58510	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=58510

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pleurotomariida : Eotomariidae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Murchisoniina : Eotomariidae

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	Orthogastropoda	Ponder and Lindberg 1997
order	Murchisoniina	Cox and Knight 1960
superfamily	Eotomarioidea	Wenz 1938
family	Eotomariidae	Wenz 1938

Scientific Name

Eotomariidae

Name Published In

Wenz W. (1938-1944). Gastropoda. Teil 1: Allgemeiner Teil und Prosobranchia. xii + 1639 pp. In: Schindewolf, O.H. (Ed.) Handbuch der Paläozoologie, Band 6. Bornträger, Berlin. Lief. 1, 1-240 [March 1938]; 3, 241-480 [October 1938]; 4, 481-720 [July 1939]; 6, 721-960 [August 1940]; 7, 961-1200 [October 1941]; 8, 1201-1506 [October 1943]; 9, 1507-1639, i-xii [November 1944].

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Eotomariidae	family	belongs to Pleurotomariacea	stated with evidence	Knight et al., 1960
Eotomariidae	family	belongs to Pleurotomarioidea	stated without evidence	Golikov and Starobogatov, 1975
Eotomariidae	family	belongs to Eotomarioidea	stated with evidence	Wagner, 1999
Eotomariidae	family	belongs to Archaeogastropoda	stated with evidence	Frýda, 2000
Eotomariidae	family	belongs to Pleurotomariacea	stated without evidence	, 2002
Eotomariidae	family	belongs to Eotomarioidea	stated with evidence	Jeffery, 2003
Eotomariidae	family	belongs to Selenimorpha	stated without evidence	Gischler et al., 2004
Eotomariidae	family	belongs to Eotomarioidea	stated with evidence	Bouchet et al., 2005

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

134

First Recorded Appearance

479 - 470 Ma
Early/Lower Ordovician

Last Recorded Appearance

242 - 237 Ma
Middle Triassic

Motility

facultatively mobile (based on Murchisoniina)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Murchisoniina)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

W. Wenz. 1938. Handbuch der Paläozoologie; Gastropoda. Handbuch der Paläozoologie

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Ambozoniinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)
Eotomariinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)	300	479 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician	343 Ma Carboniferous
Liospirinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)	402	479 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician	382 Ma Late/Upper Devonian
Ambozone ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	13	336 Ma Carboniferous	265 Ma Permian
Arastra ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	383 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	380 Ma Late/Upper Devonian
Bembexia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	58	427 Ma Silurian	343 Ma Carboniferous
Clathrospira ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	136	479 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Denayella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	29	408 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	388 Ma Middle Devonian
Eocryptaenia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	446 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Eotomaria ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	79	479 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician	439 Ma Silurian
Glabrocingulum ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	344	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Kamupena ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	242 Ma Middle Triassic	242 Ma Middle Triassic
Liospira ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	367	479 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician	382 Ma Late/Upper Devonian
Mourlonia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	158	466 Ma Middle Ordovician	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Paraliospira ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	92	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	445 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Pseudocryptaenia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Pseudocryptaulina ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	452 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	452 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Ptychomphalina ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	71	433 Ma Silurian	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Ptychonema ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	17	466 Ma Middle Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Rhaphistomella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	34	260 Ma Permian	222 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Semizona ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	472 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Spirotomaria ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	464 Ma Middle Ordovician	464 Ma Middle Ordovician
Takfaia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	269 Ma Permian	269 Ma Permian
Trepospira ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	96	439 Ma Silurian	260 Ma Permian
Turritoma ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	23	479 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician	427 Ma Silurian
Wannerispira ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	24	254 Ma Permian	252 Ma Permian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1938	Eotomariidae Wenz
1960	Eotomariidae Knight et al. p. 202
1975	Eotomariidae Golikov and Starobogatov p. 208
1999	Eotomariidae Wagner
2000	Eotomariidae Frýda p. 362
2003	Eotomariidae Jeffery
2004	Eotomariidae Gischler et al. p. 131
2005	Eotomariidae Bouchet et al. p. 243
2016	Eotomariidae Nützel and Ketwetsuriya p. 495

Year	Name and Author
1938	Eotomariidae Wenz
1960	Eotomariidae Knight et al. p. 202
1975	Eotomariidae Golikov and Starobogatov p. 208
1999	Eotomariidae Wagner
2000	Eotomariidae Frýda p. 362
2003	Eotomariidae Jeffery
2004	Eotomariidae Gischler et al. p. 131
2005	Eotomariidae Bouchet et al. p. 243
2016	Eotomariidae Nützel and Ketwetsuriya p. 495

References

Wenz W. (1938) Handbuch der Paläozoologie; Gastropoda, Handbuch der Paläozoologie

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

Golikov A. N., Starobogatov Y. I. (1975) Systematics of prosobranch gastropods, Malacologia 15 2, 185-232

Wagner P. J. (1999) Phylogenetics of the earliest anisostrophically coiled gastropods, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 88, 1-132

Frýda J. (2000) Some new Givetian (Late Middle Devonian) gastropods from the Paffrath area (Bergisches Land, Germany), Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 45 2, 359-374

Jeffery P. (2003) GastroClass: Gastropod Classification Website

Gischler E., Balinski A., et al (2004) Famennian brachiopod and gastropod occurrences on top of Devonian seamounts, Elbingerode and Iberg Reefs, Harz Mts, Germany, Senckenbergiana Lethaea 84 1/2, 125-139 doi:10.1007/BF03043468

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

Nützel A., Ketwetsuriya C. (2016) Systematic palaeontology, in Permian gastropods from the Tak Fa Limestone, Nakhon Sawan, northern Thailand, Bulletin of Geosciences 91, 481-513

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

Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526. - via World Register of Marine Species

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