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Description

Thatcheria is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4600833	https://www.gbif.org/species/4600833
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	11767	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=11767

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Raphitomidae : Thatcheria

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	Raphitomidae	Bellardi 1875
genus	Thatcheria	Angas 1877

Scientific Name

Thatcheria Angas, 1877

Name Published In

Angas, G.F. (1877b) Descriptions of a new genus of gasteropodous Mollusca from Japan, and of a new species of Bullia from Kurachi. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1877, 529–530, pl. 54.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Thatcheria	genus	belongs to Thatcheriidae	stated with evidence	MacNeil, 1960
Thatcheria	genus	belongs to Cochlespirinae	stated with evidence	Olsson, 1964
Thatcheria	genus	belongs to Turridae	stated with evidence	Ladd, 1982
Thatcheria	genus	belongs to Thatcheriinae	implied	Wilson, 1994
Thatcheria	genus	belongs to Neogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Thatcheria	genus	belongs to Daphnellinae	stated without evidence	Wienrich and Janssen, 2007
Thatcheria	genus	belongs to Raphitomidae	stated with evidence	Bouchet et al., 2011

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene

Last Recorded Appearance

2.59 - 1.81 Ma
Pleistocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Conoidea)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Conoidea)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Thatcheria (Conicheria) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		3	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Thatcheria (Waitara) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)
Thatcheria ecuadoriana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thatcheria liratula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thatcheria mirabilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thatcheria pagodula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thatcheria waitaraensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Waitara Marwick, 1931	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Raphitomidae : *Waitara*
Cochlioconus Yokoyama, 1928	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Raphitomidae : *Cochlioconus*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1877	Thatcheria Angas
1960	Thatcheria MacNeil p. 120
1964	Thatcheria Olsson p. 111
1982	Thatcheria Ladd p. 70
1994	Thatcheria Wilson p. 187
2002	Thatcheria Sepkoski, Jr.
2007	Thatcheria Wienrich and Janssen p. 714
2011	Thatcheria Bouchet et al. p. 286

References

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

MacNeil F. S. (1960) Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 339, 1-148

Olsson A. A. (1964) , Neogene Mollusks From Northwestern Ecuador

Ladd H. S. (1982) Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Volutidae through Terebridae), United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1171, 1-100

Wilson B. (1994) , Australian Marine Shells 2

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

Bouchet P., Kantor Yu. I., et al (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda), Journal of Molluscan Studies 77 3, 273-308 doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017

CAAB - 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

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - 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

CAAB (extant) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1877 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2010). Nomenclator of Molluscan Supraspecific Names. [Unpublished database]. - via World Register of Marine Species

Charig A.J. 1963. The gastropod genus Thatcheria and its relationships. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology, 7: 255–297, pl. 47. - 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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