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Tropidostropha ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4616652	https://www.gbif.org/species/4616652
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	9337	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=9337

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pleurotomariida : Gosseletinidae : Tropidostropha

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Murchisoniina : Gosseletinidae : Tropidostropha

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	Gosseletinidae	Wenz 1938
subfamily	Gosseletininae	Wenz 1938
tribe	Ptychomphalides	Wenz 1938
genus	Tropidostropha	Longstaff 1912

Scientific Name

Tropidostropha Longstaff, 1912

Name Published In

Quart. J. Geol. Soc., 68

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Tropidostropha	genus	belongs to Ptychomphalides	stated with evidence	Knight et al., 1960
Tropidostropha	genus	belongs to Archaeogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

345 - 345 Ma
Carboniferous

Last Recorded Appearance

326 - 318 Ma
Carboniferous

Motility

facultatively mobile (based on Murchisoniina)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Murchisoniina)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. D. Longstaff. 1912. Some new lower Carboniferous Gastropoda. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 68:295-309

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Tropidostropha compta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	336 Ma Carboniferous	336 Ma Carboniferous
Tropidostropha punctata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	326 Ma Carboniferous	326 Ma Carboniferous

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Tropidostrophus Cossmann, 1915	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pleurotomariida : Gosseletinidae : *Tropidostrophus*
Tropidostrophia Dollfus, 1919	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pleurotomariida : Gosseletinidae : *Tropidostrophia*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1912	Tropidostropha Longstaff
1960	Tropidostropha Knight et al. p. 203
2002	Tropidostropha Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Longstaff J. D. (1912) Some new lower Carboniferous Gastropoda, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 68, 295-309

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

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

Quart. J. Geol. Soc., 68 - 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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