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Lamellospira ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4606749	https://www.gbif.org/species/4606749
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	8908	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=8908

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pleurotomariida : Phymatopleuridae : Lamellospira

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pleurotomariida : Phymatopleuridae : Lamellospira

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
superorder	Vetigastropoda	Salvini-Plawen 1980
order	Pleurotomariida	Cox and Knight 1960
superfamily	Pleurotomarioidea
family	Phymatopleuridae	Batten 1956
genus	Lamellospira	Batten 1958

Scientific Name

Lamellospira Batten, 1958

Name Published In

Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 114

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Lamellospira	genus	belongs to Phymatopleuridae	stated with evidence	Kulas and Batten, 1997
Lamellospira	genus	belongs to Archaeogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

299 - 296 Ma
Paleozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

260 - 254 Ma
Permian

Motility

actively mobile (based on Pleurotomarioidea)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

grazer (based on Pleurotomarioidea)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. L. Batten. 1958. Permian Gastropoda of the southwestern United States. 2. Pleurotomariacea: Portlockiellidae, Phymatopleuridae, and Eotomariidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 114(2):153-246

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Lamellospira alveozona ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Lamellospira anatola ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Lamellospira cincta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Lamellospira conica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	10	279 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Lamellospira spinosa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	299 Ma Carboniferous	299 Ma Carboniferous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1958	Lamellospira Batten p. 217
1997	Lamellospira Kulas and Batten p. 43
2002	Lamellospira Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Batten R. L. (1958) Permian Gastropoda of the southwestern United States. 2. Pleurotomariacea: Portlockiellidae, Phymatopleuridae, and Eotomariidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 114 2, 153-246

Kulas H. A., Batten R. L. (1997) Silicified gastropods from the Permian Phosphoria rock complex of Wyoming, Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 31 2, 33-58

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. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 114 - 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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