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Hesperiella ✝
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pleurotomariida : Porcelliidae : Hesperiella | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Murchisoniina : Porcelliidae : Hesperiella | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Scientific Name | Hesperiella Holzapfel, 1889 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Name Published In | Pal. Abh., 5, Heft 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 408 - 393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Recorded Appearance | 272 - 269 Ma Permian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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) | E. Holzapfel. 1889. Die Cephalopoden-führenden Kalke des unteren Carbon von Erdbach-Breitscheid bei Herborn. Paläontologische Abhandlungen 5:1-74 |
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Agnesia thomsoni species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Hesperiella canningensis ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 2 | 380 Ma Late/Upper Devonian | 376 Ma Late/Upper Devonian | |
| Hesperiella contraria ✝ species | listed (PBDB) | ||||
| Hesperiella ebbighauseni ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | ||||
| Hesperiella elongata ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 4 | 359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian | 359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian | |
| Hesperiella lahniensis ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 1 | 388 Ma Middle Devonian | 388 Ma Middle Devonian | |
| Hesperiella permianus ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 4 | 279 Ma Permian | 272 Ma Permian | |
| Hesperiella planorbis ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 3 | 359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian | 359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian | |
| Hesperiella robertsi ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 8 | 359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian | 359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian | |
| Hesperiella thomsoni ✝ species | listed (PBDB) | 4 | 336 Ma Carboniferous | 336 Ma Carboniferous | |
| Hesperiella wordensis ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 5 | 279 Ma Permian | 272 Ma Permian | |
| Pleurotomaria contraria species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1889 | Hesperiella Holzapfel |
| 1960 | Hesperiella Knight et al. p. 206 |
| 1997 | Hesperiella Frýda |
| 2002 | Hesperiella Sepkoski, Jr. |
References
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!
