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Cucullaria ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3247355	https://www.gbif.org/species/3247355
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	16226	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=16226

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Arcida : Parallelodontidae : Cucullaria

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Arcida : Parallelodontidae : Cucullaria

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	Bivalvia	Linnaeus 1758
-	Eubivalvia	Carter 2011
subclass	Autobranchia
infraclass	Pteriomorphia
-	Ostreomorphi	Ferussac 1822
-	Arcioni	Gray 1854
order	Arcida
superfamily	Arcoidea
family	Parallelodontidae	Dall 1898
genus	Cucullaria	Conrad 1869

Scientific Name

Cucullaria Conrad, 1869

Name Published In

Conrad T.A. (1869). Notes on Recent Mollusca. American Journal of Conchology. 5: 104-108, pl. 10.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Cucullaria	subgenus	belongs to Barbatia	stated without evidence	Dall, 1898
Cucullaria	subgenus	belongs to Cucullaea	stated with evidence	Ortmann, 1902
Cucullaria	genus	belongs to Grammatodontinae	stated without evidence	Vokes, 1980
Cucullaria	genus	belongs to Parallelodontidae	stated with evidence	Frassinetti and Covacevich, 1999
Cucullaria	genus	belongs to Arcoida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Cucullaria	genus	belongs to Cucullariinae	stated without evidence	Bouchet et al., 2010

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

66.0 - 61.6 Ma
Paleocene

Last Recorded Appearance

11.6 - 5.3 Ma
Miocene

Motility

facultatively mobile, attached (based on Parallelodontidae)

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Parallelodontidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Arcida)

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
Arca darwini species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Arca tumescens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cucullaria cancellata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cucullaria darwini ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		7	33.9 Ma Oligocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Cucullaria heterodonta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cucullaria tumescens ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Cucullaria zauensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1869	Cucullaria Conrad p. 97
1898	Barbatia (Cucullaria) Dall p. 631 figs. pl. 25, fig. 1
1902	Cucullaea (Cucullaria) Ortmann p. 90
1980	Cucullaria Vokes p. 16
1999	Cucullaria Frassinetti and Covacevich p. 18
2002	Cucullaria Sepkoski, Jr.
2010	Cucullaria Bouchet et al.

References

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

Vokes H. E. (1980) Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue, Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue

Frassinetti D., Covacevich V. (1999) Invertibrados fósiles marinos de la Formación Guadal (Oligoceno superio-Mioceno inferior) en Pampa, Castillo region, región de Aisén, Chile, Servico Nacional de Geologia y Mineria Chile Boletin 51, 1-96

Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., et al (2010) Nomenclator of Bivalve Families with a Classification of Bivalve Families, Malacologia 52 2, 1-184 doi:10.4002/040.052.0201

GBIF/Paleo Database - 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

refer synonym source - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Conrad T.A. (1869). Notes on Recent Mollusca. American Journal of Conchology. 5: 104-108, pl. 10. - via World Register of Marine Species

Amer. J. Conch., 5 - 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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