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Wortheniopsis ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4616173	https://www.gbif.org/species/4616173
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	9390	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=9390

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Raphistomatidae : Wortheniopsis

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Murchisoniina : Plethospiridae : Wortheniopsis

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	Murchisonioidea
family	Plethospiridae	Wenz 1938
genus	Wortheniopsis	Böhm 1895

Scientific Name

Wortheniopsis Böhm, 1895

Name Published In

Palaeontographica, 42 (4-5)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Wortheniopsis	genus	belongs to Gastropoda	stated without evidence	Beede, 1907
Wortheniopsis	subgenus	belongs to Pleurotomaria	stated without evidence	Cowper Reed, 1927
Wortheniopsis	genus	belongs to Pithodeinae	stated with evidence	Knight et al., 1960
Wortheniopsis	genus	belongs to Archaeogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Wortheniopsis	genus	belongs to Plethospiridae	stated with evidence	Nützel et al., 2018

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

265 - 260 Ma
Permian

Last Recorded Appearance

228 - 209 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic

Motility

facultatively mobile (based on Murchisonioidea)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Murchisonioidea)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. Böhm. 1895. Die Gastropoden des Marmolatakalkes. Palaeontographica 42:211-308

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Pleurotomaria margarethae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Turbo quirini species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Wortheniopsis margarethae ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	242 Ma Middle Triassic	242 Ma Middle Triassic
Wortheniopsis quirinii ✝ species	listed (PBDB)

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Worthenopsis Beede, 1907	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Raphistomatidae : *Worthenopsis*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1895	Wortheniopsis Böhm p. 219
1907	Worthenopsis Beede p. 164
1927	Pleurotomaria (Wortheniopsis) Cowper Reed p. 96
1960	Wortheniopsis Knight et al. p. 296
2002	Wortheniopsis Sepkoski, Jr.
2018	Wortheniopsis Nützel et al. p. 491

References

Böhm J. Die Gastropoden des Marmolatakalkes, Palaeontographica 42, 211-308

Beede J. W. (1907) Invertebrate paleontology of the Upper Permian Red Beds of Oklahoma and the panhandle of Texas, Kansas University Science Bulletin 4, 113-1171

Cowper Reed F. R. (1927) Upper Carboniferous fossils from Argentina, Carnegie Institute of Washington 381, 129-158

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

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

Nützel A., Kaim A., et al (2018) Middle Triassic (Anisian, Bithynian) gastropods from North Dobrogea (Romania) and their significance for gastropod recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction event, Papers in Palaeontology 4, 477-512

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 (Nov 2016). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Palaeontographica, 42 (4-5) - 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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