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Stenoloron ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4616676	https://www.gbif.org/species/4616676
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	9268	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=9268

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pleurotomariida : Gosseletinidae : Stenoloron

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Murchisoniina : Gosseletinidae : Stenoloron

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
genus	Stenoloron	Oehlert 1888

Scientific Name

Stenoloron Oehlert, 1888

Name Published In

Bull. Soc. Etudes Sci. Angers, (N. S.) 17

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Stenoloron	subgenus	belongs to Pleurotomaria	stated with evidence	Oehlert and Oehlert, 1888
Stenoloron	subgenus	belongs to Eotomaria	stated without evidence	Koken and Perner, 1925
Stenoloron	genus	belongs to Gosseletininae	stated with evidence	Knight et al., 1960
Stenoloron	genus	belongs to Pleurotomariacea	implied	Farrell, 1992
Stenoloron	genus	belongs to Archaeogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Stenoloron	genus	belongs to Gosseletininae	stated with evidence	Wagner, 2017

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

461 - 450 Ma
Ordovician

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)

D. Oehlert and P. Oehlert. 1888. Descriptions de quelques espèces dévoniennes de département de la Mayenne. Bulletin de la Société d'Etudes Scientifiques d'Angers 1888:65-120

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Stenoloron (Stenoloron) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		6	411 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	411 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Pleurotomaria (Stenoloron) aperiens ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Oriostoma angulifer ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Eotomaria areyi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	431 Ma Silurian	431 Ma Silurian
Stenoloron boucoti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Stenoloron cryptata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pleurotomaria delia ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Liospira devonica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	408 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	408 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Coelozone fasciata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Stenoloron goldfussi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	388 Ma Middle Devonian	388 Ma Middle Devonian
Pleurotomaria linnarssoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	427 Ma Silurian	427 Ma Silurian
Stenoloron minor ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Mourlonia subaequilatera ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	411 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	411 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Mourlonia subglobosa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	408 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	408 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Stenoloron sulcatula ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	426 Ma Silurian	426 Ma Silurian
Pleurotomaria swallovana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	345 Ma Carboniferous	326 Ma Carboniferous
Eotomaria umbilicata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian
Pleurotomaria viennayi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	419 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	411 Ma Early/Lower Devonian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1888	Pleurotomaria (Stenoloron) Oehlert and Oehlert p. 94
1925	Eotomaria (Stenoloron) Koken and Perner
1960	Stenoloron Knight et al. p. 210
1992	Stenoloron Farrell p. 32
2002	Stenoloron Sepkoski, Jr.
2017	Stenoloron Wagner p. G384

References

Oehlert D., Oehlert P. Descriptions de quelques espèces dévoniennes de département de la Mayenne, Bulletin de la Société d'Etudes Scientifiques d'Angers 1888, 65-120

Koken E., Perner J. (1925) , Die Gastropoden des baltischen Untersilurs, 1-324

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

Farrell J. R. (1992) The Garra Formation (Early Devonian: Late Lochkovian) between Cumnock and Larras Lee, New South Wales, Australia: stratigraphic and structural setting, faunas, and community sequence, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 222 1-3, 1-41

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

Wagner P. J. (2017) Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database

Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) - 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

Bull. Soc. Etudes Sci. Angers, (N. S.) 17 - 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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