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Pseudomelaniidae

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Pseudomelania sp.

Moinhos de Alburrica Beach, Barreiro e Lavradio, Barreiro, Setúbal, Portugal

Pseudomelania sp.

Barreiro e Lavradio, Barreiro, Setúbal, Portugal

Pseudomelania sp.

Moinhos de Alburrica Beach, Barreiro e Lavradio, Barreiro, Setúbal, Portugal

Pseudomelania sp.

Barreiro e Lavradio, Barreiro, Setúbal, Portugal

Pseudomelania sp.

Moinhos de Alburrica Beach, Barreiro e Lavradio, Barreiro, Setúbal, Portugal

Pseudomelania sp.

Barreiro e Lavradio, Barreiro, Setúbal, Portugal

Description

Pseudomelaniidae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Caenogastropoda.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4613786	https://www.gbif.org/species/4613786
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	61968	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=61968

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pseudomelaniidae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Pseudomelaniidae

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	Conoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Turridae	Swainson 1840
family	Pseudomelaniidae	Cossmann 1909

Scientific Name

Pseudomelaniidae

Name Published In

Hoernes, R. (1884). Elemente der Palaeontologie (Palaeozoologie). Veit & Co. Leipzig. xvi + p. 1–594.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Pseudomelaniidae	family	belongs to Pseudomelanoidea	stated with evidence	Ponder and Warén, 1988
Pseudomelaniidae	family	belongs to Cerithioidea	stated with evidence	Pacaud and Le Renard, 1995
Pseudomelaniidae	family	belongs to Pseudomelanoidea	stated without evidence	Harzhauser, 2004
Pseudomelaniidae	family	belongs to Pseudomelanoidea	stated with evidence	Bouchet et al., 2005

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

156

Extant Size (PBDB)

35 (22%)

First Recorded Appearance

272 - 269 Ma
Permian

Motility

actively mobile (based on Turridae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Turridae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

W. F. Ponder and A. Warén. 1988. Appendix: classification of the Caenogastropoda and Heterostropha - a list of the family-group names and higher taxa. Malacological Review Suppl. 4:288-326

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudomelaniidae

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Angulasina ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	172 Ma Middle Jurassic	172 Ma Middle Jurassic
Antiplanes genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		25	28.1 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Austrodrillia genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Bayania ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		74	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	28.1 Ma Oligocene
Bourgetia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		52	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Carinodrillia genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		68	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Clavatoma ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	19.0 Ma Miocene	19.0 Ma Miocene
Cloughtonia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Compsodrillia genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		46	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Crassispira genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		224	48.6 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Epidirona genus	listed (PBDB)		2	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Fusoidella ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Glossispira genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Hudlestonella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	140 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	133 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Inquisitor genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		78	61.6 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Leucosyrinx genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		18	61.6 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Liocium ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Lioglyphostoma genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		18	20.4 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Maesiella genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	1.81 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Malbalnella genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Mesospira ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Miraclathurella genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		42	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Monilispira genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Paosia genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Pericarinata ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Pilsbryspira genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Pseudomelania ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		363	272 Ma Permian	28.4 Ma Oligocene
Ptychobela genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Ramina ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	242 Ma Middle Triassic
Tiariturris genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Zonulispira genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Psuedomelaniidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Psuedomelaniidae
Crassispiridae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Crassispiridae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1909	Pseudomelaniidae Cossmann
1966	Crassispirinae Morrison
1988	Pseudomelaniidae Ponder and Warén p. 293
1988	Crassispirinae Ponder and Warén p. 307
1990	Crassispirinae Beu et al. pp. 417, 418
1994	Crassispirinae Wilson p. 182

Year	Name and Author
1995	Pseudomelaniidae Pacaud and Le Renard p. 157
2004	Pseudomelaniidae Harzhauser p. 126
2005	Pseudomelaniidae Bouchet et al. p. 247
2005	Crassispirinae Bouchet et al. p. 257
2007	Crassispirinae Harzhauser p. 109
2011	Crassispirinae Fallon p. 53

References

Ponder W. F., Warén A. (1988) Appendix: classification of the Caenogastropoda and Heterostropha - a list of the family-group names and higher taxa, Malacological Review Suppl. 4, 288-326

Beu A. G., Maxwell P.A., et al (1990) Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand, New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 58

Wilson B. (1994) , Australian Marine Shells 2

Pacaud J.-M., Le Renard J. (1995) Révision des Mollusques Paléogénes du Bassin de Paris. IV - Liste systématique actualisée, Cossmanniana 3 4, 155-187

Harzhauser M. (2004) Oligocene gastropod faunas for the Eastern Mediterranean (Mesohellenic Trough/Greece and Esfahan-Sirjan Basin/Central Iran), Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 248, 93-181

Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P, et al (2005) A nomenclator and classification of gastropod family-group names, Malacologia 47 1-2, 1-368

Harzhauser M. (2007) Oligocene and Aquitanian gastropod faunas from the Sultanate of Oman and their biogeographic implications for the western Indo-Pacific., Palaeontographica Abteilung A 280, 75-121

Hoernes, R. (1884). Elemente der Palaeontologie (Palaeozoologie). Veit & Co. Leipzig. xvi + p. 1–594. - via World Register of Marine Species

Bouchet, P., Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47(1-2): 1-397 ISBN 3-925919-72-4. - via World Register of Marine Species

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47(1-2): 1-397. - 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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