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Zygopleura ✝

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†Zygopleura is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Zygopleuridae.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4614264	https://www.gbif.org/species/4614264
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	10706	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=10706

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Zygopleuridae : Zygopleura

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Murchisoniina : Zygopleuridae : Zygopleura

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	Loxonematoidea
family	Zygopleuridae	Wenz 1938
subfamily	Zygopleurinae	Wenz 1938
genus	Zygopleura	Wöhrmann & Koken 1892

Scientific Name

Zygopleura Wöhrmann & Koken, 1892

Name Published In

Z. Dtsch. Geol. Ges., 44 (2)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Zygopleura	genus	belongs to Zygopleuridae	stated without evidence	Wenz, 1938
Zygopleura	genus	belongs to Zygopleuridae	stated with evidence	Knight et al., 1960
Zygopleura	genus	belongs to Neotaenioglossa	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Zygopleura	genus	belongs to Zygopleurinae	stated with evidence	Bouchet et al., 2005

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

339 - 326 Ma
Carboniferous

Last Recorded Appearance

59.2 - 47.8 Ma
Paleogene

Motility

facultatively mobile (based on Loxonematoidea)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Loxonematoidea)

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/Zygopleura

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Zygopleura (Allostrophia) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		1	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Zygopleura (Xizangospira) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)
Cerithium etalense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cerithium porulosum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cerithium verrucosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chemnitzia swalloviana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Loxonema brevis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Loxonema granietzense species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turritella arctecostata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turritella walmstedtii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zygopleura angulata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	290 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Zygopleura arctecostata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		29	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Zygopleura benoisti ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Zygopleura brevis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Zygopleura crassa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zygopleura dubia ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	190 Ma Early Jurassic	190 Ma Early Jurassic
Zygopleura dubia ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Zygopleura elegans species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zygopleura etalensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Zygopleura geniculata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Zygopleura goldbergi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	165 Ma Middle Jurassic	165 Ma Middle Jurassic
Zygopleura grandicostata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zygopleura granietzensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Zygopleura haasi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Zygopleura hybrida ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		10	242 Ma Middle Triassic	59.2 Ma Paleocene
Zygopleura longnorensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Zygopleura nitida ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Zygopleura nodosa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	318 Ma Carboniferous	303 Ma Carboniferous
Zygopleura numidis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	269 Ma Permian	269 Ma Permian
Zygopleura obsoleta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zygopleura plebia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zygopleura porulosa ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Zygopleura rugifera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zygopleura simplex ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	290 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Zygopleura swalloviana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	265 Ma Permian	265 Ma Permian
Zygopleura trimera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zygopleura tunisiensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	165 Ma Middle Jurassic	165 Ma Middle Jurassic
Zygopleura verrucosa ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Zygopleura walmstedti ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		12	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Zygopleura yunnanensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	237 Ma Middle Triassic	237 Ma Middle Triassic

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Zigopleura Frédérix, 1915	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Zygopleuridae : *Zigopleura*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1938	Zygopleura Wenz
1960	Zygopleura Knight et al. p. 315
2002	Zygopleura Sepkoski, Jr.
2005	Zygopleura Bouchet et al. p. 186

References

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

Wenz W. (1938) Handbuch der Paläozoologie; Gastropoda, Handbuch der Paläozoologie

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

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

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

Z. Dtsch. Geol. Ges., 44 (2) - 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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