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Daidia ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4605952	https://www.gbif.org/species/4605952
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	8732	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=8732

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Straparollinidae : Daidia

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Murchisoniina : Straparollinidae : Daidia

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	Orthogastropoda	Ponder and Lindberg 1997
order	Murchisoniina	Cox and Knight 1960
superfamily	Straparollinoidea	Wagner 1999
family	Straparollinidae	Wagner 1999
genus	Daidia	Wilson 1951

Scientific Name

Daidia Wilson, 1951

Name Published In

Bull. Geol. Surv. Can., 17

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Daidia	genus	belongs to Microdomatidae	stated with evidence	Knight et al., 1960
Daidia	genus	belongs to Straparollinidae	stated with evidence	Wagner, 1999
Daidia	genus	belongs to Archaeogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

461 - 450 Ma
Ordovician

Last Recorded Appearance

445 - 443 Ma
Paleozoic

Motility

facultatively mobile (based on Murchisoniina)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Murchisoniina)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

A. E. Wilson. 1951. Gastropoda and Conularida of the Ottawa Formation of the Ottawa - St. Lawrence Lowland. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 17:1-149

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Coelocaulus peculiaris species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Daidia cerithioides ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	458 Ma Middle Ordovician
Daidia peculiaris ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Daidia sewardensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Daidia wilsonae ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	445 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	445 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Eunema cerithioides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Meekospira subconica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1951	Daidia Wilson
1960	Daidia Knight et al. p. 242
1999	Daidia Wagner p. G298
2002	Daidia Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Wilson A. E. (1951) Gastropoda and Conularida of the Ottawa Formation of the Ottawa - St. Lawrence Lowland, Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 17, 1-149

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

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

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

Bull. Geol. Surv. Can., 17 - 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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