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Microdomatidae ✝

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Description

Microdomatidae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Trochoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3245541	https://www.gbif.org/species/3245541
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	58773	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=58773

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Trochida : Microdomatidae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Euomphalina : Microdomatidae

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	Eogastropoda	Ponder and Lindberg 1996
order	Euomphalina	de Koninck 1881
superfamily	Euomphaloidea
family	Microdomatidae	Wenz 1938

Scientific Name

Microdomatidae

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
Microdomatidae	family	belongs to Microdomatacea	stated with evidence	Knight et al., 1960
Microdomatidae	family	belongs to Microdomatoidea	stated without evidence	Golikov and Starobogatov, 1975
Microdomatidae	family	belongs to Trochoidea	stated with evidence	Pan and Erwin, 2002
Microdomatidae	family	belongs to Microdomatoidea	stated with evidence	Jeffery, 2003
Microdomatidae	family	belongs to Trochoidea	stated with evidence	Bouchet et al., 2005
Microdomatidae	family	belongs to Euomphaloidea	stated with evidence	Wagner, 2017

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

411 - 408 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian

Last Recorded Appearance

251 - 247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic

Motility

stationary (based on Euomphaloidea)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

detritivore

Ecospace Comments

Bandel et al. 2002: thin outer layer of calcite, largest layer aragonite, then nacre.

Taphonomy

aragonite, "calcite"

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Microdomatinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)	3	388 Ma Middle Devonian	388 Ma Middle Devonian
Amaurotoma ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	21	345 Ma Carboniferous	269 Ma Permian
Copidocatomus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Cyclites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	14	339 Ma Carboniferous	260 Ma Permian
Cyclobathmus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	8	265 Ma Permian	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Decorospira ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	409 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Episfaxis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	411 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	411 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Glyptospira ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	35	318 Ma Carboniferous	254 Ma Permian
Kinkaidia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	339 Ma Carboniferous	336 Ma Carboniferous
Knightinella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	7	314 Ma Carboniferous	269 Ma Permian
Limburgia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	388 Ma Middle Devonian	388 Ma Middle Devonian
Microdoma ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	44	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	269 Ma Permian
Roemeriella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	8	384 Ma Middle Devonian	372 Ma Late/Upper Devonian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1938	Microdomatidae Wenz
1960	Microdomatidae Knight et al. p. 242
1975	Microdomatidae Golikov and Starobogatov p. 208
2002	Microdomatidae Pan and Erwin
2003	Microdomatidae Jeffery
2005	Microdomatidae Bouchet et al. p. 245
2016	Microdomatidae Nützel and Ketwetsuriya p. 500
2017	Microdomatidae Wagner p. H152

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

Pan H. -Z., Erwin D. H. (2002) Gastropods from the Permian of Guangxi and Yunnan Provinces, South China, Journal of Paleontology Memoir 56, 1-49 doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2002)76[1:GFTPOG]2.0.CO;2

Jeffery P. (2003) GastroClass: Gastropod Classification Website

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

Wagner P. J. (2017) Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database

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

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

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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