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Ophiletina ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4599551	https://www.gbif.org/species/4599551
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	8479	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=8479

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Helicotomidae : Ophiletina

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Euomphalina : Helicotomidae : Ophiletina

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	Helicotomidae
genus	Ophiletina	Ulrich & Scofield 1897

Scientific Name

Ophiletina Ulrich & Scofield, 1897

Name Published In

Fin. Rep. Geol. Surv. Minnesota, 3, no. 2,

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Ophiletina	genus	belongs to Euomphalidae	stated with evidence	Ulrich and Scofield, 1897
Ophiletina	genus	belongs to Helicotominae	stated with evidence	Knight et al., 1960
Ophiletina	genus	belongs to Ophiletidae	stated without evidence	Morris and Cleevely, 1981
Ophiletina	genus	belongs to Euomphalidae	stated with evidence	Linsley and Kier, 1984
Ophiletina	genus	belongs to Helicotominae	stated with evidence	Wagner, 1999
Ophiletina	genus	belongs to Euomphalina	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

468 - 461 Ma
Middle Ordovician

Last Recorded Appearance

458 - 450 Ma
Late/Upper Ordovician

Motility

stationary

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

suspension feeder

Ecospace Comments

BODY SIZE: Data from Knight et al. (1960).

Taphonomy

aragonite,minor ribbing

Primary Reference (PBDB)

E. O. Ulrich and W. H. Scofield. 1897. The Lower Silurian Gastropoda of Minnesota. The Paleontology of Minnesota 39(2):813-1081

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Ophileta fausta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophiletina angularis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		11	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	458 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Ophiletina fausta ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		4	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Ophiletina shokoriense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	467 Ma Middle Ordovician	467 Ma Middle Ordovician
Ophiletina sublaxa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		25	466 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Oriostoma bromidensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1897	Ophiletina Ulrich and Scofield
1960	Ophiletina Knight et al. p. 190
1981	Ophiletina Morris and Cleevely
1984	Ophiletina Linsley and Kier
1999	Ophiletina Wagner
2002	Ophiletina Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Ulrich E. O., Scofield W. H. The Lower Silurian Gastropoda of Minnesota, The Paleontology of Minnesota 39 2, 813-1081

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

Morris N.J., Cleevely R. J. (1981) Phanerotinus cristatus (Phillips) and the nature of euomphalacean gastropods, Molluscans, Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology) 35 3, 195-212

Linsley R. M., Kier W.M. (1984) The Paragastropoda: a proposal for a new class of Paleozoic Mollusca, Malacologia 25 1, 241-254

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

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

Fin. Rep. Geol. Surv. Minnesota, 3, no. 2, - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

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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