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Apachella ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4616711	https://www.gbif.org/species/4616711
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	8557	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=8557

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pleurotomariida : Gosseletinidae : Apachella

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Murchisoniina : Gosseletinidae : Apachella

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	Neilsoniinae	Knight 1956
genus	Apachella	Winters 1956

Scientific Name

Apachella Winters, 1956

Name Published In

J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 46

Opinions (PBDB)

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

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

318 - 315 Ma
Carboniferous

Last Recorded Appearance

254 - 252 Ma
Permian

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)

S. S. Winters. 1956. New Permian gastropod genera from eastern Arizona. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 46(2):44-45

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Ananias franciscanus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		32	299 Ma Carboniferous	272 Ma Permian
Apachella alamillano ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Apachella arizonensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Apachella boydi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Apachella brachysiphon ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Apachella exaggerata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		16	279 Ma Permian	269 Ma Permian
Apachella glabra ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		9	318 Ma Carboniferous	265 Ma Permian
Apachella huecoensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		14	296 Ma Permian	269 Ma Permian
Apachella malaysia ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Apachella mulensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Apachella nodosa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		21	290 Ma Permian	265 Ma Permian
Apachella nucleola ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Apachella powwowensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	318 Ma Carboniferous	318 Ma Carboniferous
Apachella prodontia ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		19	296 Ma Permian	269 Ma Permian
Apachella translirata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		28	279 Ma Permian	265 Ma Permian
Apachella turbiniformis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		16	318 Ma Carboniferous	260 Ma Permian
Pleurotomaria capertoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		15	272 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Pleurotomaria pseudostrigillata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		13	279 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Pleurotomaria texana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Worthenia alamillano species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1956	Apachella Winters
1960	Apachella Knight et al. p. 207
2002	Apachella Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Winters S. S. (1956) New Permian gastropod genera from eastern Arizona, Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 46 2, 44-45

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

J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 46 - 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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