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Pseudozonaria

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Description

Pseudozonaria is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4608003	https://www.gbif.org/species/4608003
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	10365	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=10365

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Cypraeidae : Pseudozonaria

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Cypraeidae : Pseudozonaria

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
superorder	Hypsogastropoda
infraorder	Littorinimorpha	Golikov and Starobogtov 1975
superfamily	Cypraeoidea
family	Cypraeidae	Rafinesque 1815
subfamily	Pseudozonariinae	López 2006
genus	Pseudozonaria	Schilder 1929

Scientific Name

Pseudozonaria Schilder, 1929

Name Published In

Arch. Naturgesch., 91, A10

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Pseudozonaria	subgenus	belongs to Cypraea	stated with evidence	Petuch, 1990
Pseudozonaria	genus	belongs to Neotaenioglossa	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Pseudozonaria	subgenus	belongs to Zonaria	stated with evidence	Groves and Nielsen, 2003
Pseudozonaria	genus	belongs to Pseudozonariinae	stated with evidence	Landau and Marques da Silva, 2010

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

6 (35%)

First Recorded Appearance

20.4 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Cypraeidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

omnivore, grazer (based on Cypraeidae)

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/Pseudozonaria

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Cypraea portelli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cypraea raymondrobertsi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cypraea telembiensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudozonaria aequinoctialis species	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Pseudozonaria annettae species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Pseudozonaria arabicula species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Pseudozonaria cathyae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Pseudozonaria falconensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Pseudozonaria fehsei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	3.60 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Pseudozonaria frassinetti ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Pseudozonaria frassinettii ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Pseudozonaria nigropunctata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Pseudozonaria portelli ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	0.78 Ma Pleistocene	0.78 Ma Pleistocene
Pseudozonaria praeaequinoctialis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Pseudozonaria primarobertsi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Pseudozonaria raymondrobertsi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		15	7.25 Ma Miocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Pseudozonaria robertsi species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Pseudozonaria telembiensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Zonaria (Pseudozonaria) cathyae ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Zonaria cathyae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1927	Pseudozonaria Schilder
1990	Cypraea (Pseudozonaria) Petuch
2002	Pseudozonaria Sepkoski, Jr.
2003	Zonaria (Pseudozonaria) Groves and Nielsen p. 352
2010	Pseudozonaria Landau and Marques da Silva p. 34
2011	Pseudozonaria Landau and Groves p. 26

References

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

Groves L. T., Nielsen S. N. (2003) A New Late Miocene Zonaria (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) from Central Chile, The Veliger 46 4, 351-354

Landau B., Marques da Silva C. (2010) Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy, Palaeontos 19, 1-221

Landau B. M., Groves L. T. (2011) Cypraeidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the early Miocene Cantaure Formation of northern Venezuela, Novaplex 12 1-2, 1-38

Schilder, M. & Schilder, F. A. (1971) A catalogue of living and fossil cowries. A taxonomy and bibliography of Triviacea and Cypraeacea (Gastropoda Prosobranchia). Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Mémoires, Deuxième Series, 85: 1-246 - via World Register of Marine Species

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

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Arch. Naturgesch., 91, A10 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

GBIF/NLBIF: Natural History Museum Rotterdam - 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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