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Ptychomphalus ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4616688	https://www.gbif.org/species/4616688
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	9174	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=9174

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pleurotomariida : Gosseletinidae : Ptychomphalus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Ptychomphalidae : Ptychomphalus

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
superorder	Vetigastropoda	Salvini-Plawen 1980
superfamily	Ptychomphaloidea	Wenz 1938
family	Ptychomphalidae
genus	Ptychomphalus	Agassiz 1839

Scientific Name

Ptychomphalus Agassiz, 1839

Name Published In

in Sowerby, Min. Conch. (Germ. ed.)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Ptychomphalus	subgenus	belongs to Pleurotomaria	stated without evidence	Licharew, 1913
Ptychomphalus	genus	belongs to Ptychomphalides	stated with evidence	Knight et al., 1960
Ptychomphalus	genus	belongs to Eotomariidae	stated with evidence	Szabo, 1980
Ptychomphalus	genus	belongs to Archaeogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Ptychomphalus	genus	belongs to Ptychomphalidae	stated with evidence	Bandel, 2009

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

354 - 345 Ma
Carboniferous

Last Recorded Appearance

174 - 164 Ma
Middle Jurassic

Motility

actively mobile (based on Vetigastropoda)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

grazer (based on Vetigastropoda)

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Helicina expansa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pleurotomaria (Ptychomphalus) arcticiformis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Pleurotomaria caepa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pleurotomaria kirillowensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pleurotomaria rotellaeformis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pleurotomaria theodorii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pleurotomaria wehenkeli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ptychomphalus benedianus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Ptychomphalus caepa ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		9	201 Ma Early Jurassic	197 Ma Early Jurassic
Ptychomphalus conimorphus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	339 Ma Carboniferous	339 Ma Carboniferous
Ptychomphalus expansus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		10	197 Ma Early Jurassic	190 Ma Early Jurassic
Ptychomphalus laudenslageri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ptychomphalus lineata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ptychomphalus neumayri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Ptychomphalus palaeopsis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Ptychomphalus protei ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		4	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	212 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Ptychomphalus rotellaeformis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		7	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Ptychomphalus striatus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	336 Ma Carboniferous	336 Ma Carboniferous
Ptychomphalus theodorii ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	190 Ma Early Jurassic	190 Ma Early Jurassic
Ptychomphalus tieni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Ptychomphalus wehenkeli ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Ptychomphalus wehnkeli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Scalites protei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Ptycomphalus Benson, Dun & Browne, 1920	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pleurotomariida : Gosseletinidae : *Ptycomphalus*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1839	Ptychomphalus Agassiz
1913	Pleurotomaria (Ptychomphalus) Licharew p. 87
1960	Ptychomphalus Knight et al. p. 204
1980	Ptychomphalus Szabo p. 55
2002	Ptychomphalus Sepkoski, Jr.
2009	Ptychomphalus Bandel p. 10

References

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

Licharew B. (1913) Die Fauna der permischen Ablagerungen aus der Umgebung der Stadt Kirillow im Gouvernement Novgorod, Trudy Geologicheskii Komitet (Mémoires Comité géologique), New Series 85

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

Szabo J. (1980) Lower and Middle Jurassic Gastropods from the Bakony Mountains (Hungary). Part II. Pleurotomariacea and Fissurellacea (Archaeograstropoda), Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 72, 49-71

Bandel K. (2009) The slit bearing nacreous Archaeogastropoda of the Triassic tropical reefs in the St. Cassian Formation with evaluation of the taxonomic value of the selenizone, Berliner Paläobiologische Abhandlungen 10, 5-47

GBIF/Paleo Database - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus (authority adjusted) - 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

in Sowerby, Min. Conch. (Germ. ed.) - 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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