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Description

Perplicaria is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4604364	https://www.gbif.org/species/4604364
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	11506	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=11506

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Cancellariidae : Perplicaria

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	Cancellarioidea	Gray 1853
family	Cancellariidae	Gray 1853
genus	Perplicaria	Dall 1890

Scientific Name

Perplicaria Dall, 1890

Name Published In

Dall, William H. 1890. Contributions to the Tertiary fauna of Florida, with especial reference to the Miocene Silex-beds of Tampa and the Pliocene beds of the Caloosahatchie River. Part I. Pulmonate, opisthobranchiate and orthodont gastropods. Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science of Philadelphia 3(1): 1-200, pls.1-12.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Perplicaria	genus	belongs to Cancellariidae	stated with evidence	Olsson and Harbison, 1953
Perplicaria	genus	belongs to Cancellariidae	stated without evidence	Olsson, 1967
Perplicaria	genus	belongs to Cancellariidae	stated with evidence	Jung and Petit, 1990
Perplicaria	genus	belongs to Neogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

7.25 - 5.33 Ma
Miocene

Last Recorded Appearance

2.59 - 0.78 Ma
Pleistocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Cancellariidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Cancellariidae)

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/Perplicaria

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Daguinia vigneauxi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Perplicaria aquitanica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Perplicaria boucheti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Perplicaria canae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	7.25 Ma Miocene	7.25 Ma Miocene
Perplicaria clarki ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Perplicaria perplexa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	3.60 Ma Pliocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Perplicaria prior ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Perplicaria vigneauxi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1890	Perplicaria Dall p. 90
1953	Perplicaria Olsson and Harbison p. 180
1966	Daguinia Magne p. 127
1967	Perplicaria Olsson p. 25
1990	Perplicaria Jung and Petit p. 111
2002	Perplicaria Sepkoski, Jr.

References

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

Olsson A. A., Harbison A. (1953) Pliocene Mollusca of Southern Florida, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Monograph 8, 1-457

Olsson A. A. (1967) , Some Tertiary mollusks from South Florida and the Carribean. Paleontological Research Institute, 1-61

Jung P., Petit R. E. (1990) Neogene paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic, 10. The family Cancellariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), Bulletins of American Paleontology 98 334, 87-144

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

Hemmen J. (2007) Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp. [With amendments and corrections taken from Petit R.E. (2012) A critique of, and errata for, Recent Cancellariidae by Jens Hemmen, 2007. Conchologia Ingrata 9: 1-8. http://conchologia.com/publication_pdf/13.pdf] - via World Register of Marine Species

Trans. Wagner Inst., 3 (1) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Dall, W.H. (1890-1903). Contributions to the Tertiary fauna of Florida with especial reference to the Miocene silex-beds of Tampa and the Pliocene beds of the Caloosahatchie River. Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science. 3(1): 1-200 [1890]; 3(2): 201-474 [1892]; 3(3): 475-570, and plates for part 1: pp. 179-190, pl. 1-12; plates for part 2: pp. 449-458, pl. 13-22 [1895]; 3(4): [i]-viii, 571-948, pl. 23-35; [1898]; 3(5): 949-1218, pl. 36-47 [1900]; 3(6): [i]-xiv, 1219-1564, pl. 48-60 [1903]. - 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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