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Paraliospira ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4615134	https://www.gbif.org/species/4615134
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	9075	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=9075

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pleurotomariida : Eotomariidae : Paraliospira

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Murchisoniina : Eotomariidae : Paraliospira

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	Eotomarioidea	Wenz 1938
family	Eotomariidae	Wenz 1938
genus	Paraliospira	Rohr 1980

Scientific Name

Paraliospira Rohr, 1980

Name Published In

Palaeontographica (A) 171 (4-6)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Paraliospira	genus	belongs to Liospirinae	stated with evidence	Rohr, 1980
Paraliospira	genus	belongs to Eotomariidae	stated with evidence	Wagner, 1999
Paraliospira	genus	belongs to Archaeogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

461 - 450 Ma
Ordovician

Last Recorded Appearance

445 - 443 Ma
Paleozoic

Motility

facultatively mobile (based on Murchisoniina)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Murchisoniina)

Ecospace Comments

BODY SIZE: Data from Rohr & Blodgett (1985).

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

D. M. Rohr. 1980. Ordovician - Devonian Gastropoda from the Klamath Mountains, California. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 171:141-199

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Eotomaria rupestris ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Helicotoma larvata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Liospira abrupta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		16	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Liospira angulata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	445 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Liospira mundula ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		9	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Liospira parva ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Liospira rugata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Paraliospira gradata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Paraliospira planata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Paraliospira pragensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Paraliospira trebotovensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pleurotomaria eugenia ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Pleurotomaria helena ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		10	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Pleurotomaria supracingulata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		27	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1980	Paraliospira Rohr
1999	Paraliospira Wagner
2002	Paraliospira Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Rohr D. M. (1980) Ordovician - Devonian Gastropoda from the Klamath Mountains, California, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 171, 141-199

Wagner P. J. (1999) Phylogenetics of the earliest anisostrophically coiled gastropods, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 88, 1-132

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

Palaeontographica (A) 171 (4-6) - 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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