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Christiania ✝

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Christiania may refer to:

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiania, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4867257	https://www.gbif.org/species/4867257
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	27229	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=27229

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Brachiopoda : Strophomenata : Strophomenida : Christianiidae : Christiania

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
-	Lophophorata
phylum	Brachiopoda	Cuvier 1805
subphylum	Rhynchonelliformea	Williams et al. 1996
class	Strophomenata	Williams et al 1996
order	Strophomenida	Opik 1934
superfamily	Strophomenoidea	King 1846
family	Christianiidae	Williams 1953
genus	Christiania	Hall & Clarke 1892

Scientific Name

Christiania Hall & Clarke, 1892

Name Published In

Palaeont. N. York, 8 (1)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Christiania	genus	belongs to Christianiidae	stated with evidence	Mitchell, 1977
Christiania	genus	belongs to Christianiidae	stated without evidence	Popov et al., 2000
Christiania	genus	belongs to Strophomenida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Christiania	genus	belongs to Christianiidae	stated with evidence	Cocks, 2005
Christiania	genus	belongs to Christianiidae	stated without evidence	Zhan and Jin, 2005
Christiania	genus	belongs to Christianiidae	stated with evidence	Cocks, 2010

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

468 - 464 Ma
Middle Ordovician

Last Recorded Appearance

443 - 441 Ma
Silurian

Motility

stationary

Vision

blind (based on Strophomenata)

Diet

suspension feeder

Ecospace Comments

LIFE HISTORY: Unattached, suspension-feeder (McKerrow, 1979). BODY SIZE: Data from Williams et al. (2000).

Taphonomy

low Mg calcite (based on Brachiopoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiania

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Christiania aseptata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	456 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Christiania auriculata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Christiania bilobata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	458 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	456 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Christiania dalarnensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	453 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Christiania dubia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Christiania egregia ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Christiania elongata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	468 Ma Middle Ordovician	468 Ma Middle Ordovician
Christiania hastata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		12	466 Ma Middle Ordovician	466 Ma Middle Ordovician
Christiania hollii ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	456 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	456 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Christiania holtedahli ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Christiania huanghuaensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	458 Ma Middle Ordovician	458 Ma Middle Ordovician
Christiania lamellosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Christiania magna ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		10	456 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Christiania nilssoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		13	458 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Christiania perrugata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	458 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Christiania platys species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Christiania portlocki ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Christiania proclivis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	453 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	453 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Christiania skolia ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	456 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	453 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Christiania subquadrata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	468 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Christiania sulcata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		14	466 Ma Middle Ordovician	458 Ma Middle Ordovician
Christiania tenuicincta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Christiania trentonensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Christiania trentonensis ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1892	Christiania Hall and Clarke
1977	Christiania Mitchell
2000	Christiania Popov et al.
2000	Christiania Williams et al. p. 256
2002	Christianella Sepkoski, Jr.
2002	Christiania Sepkoski, Jr.
2005	Christiania Cocks p. 267
2005	Christiania Zhan and Jin
2010	Christiania Cocks

References

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

Mitchell W. I. (1977) The Ordovician Brachiopoda from Pomeroy, Co. Tyrone, The Palaeontographical Society Monographs 130 545, 1-138

Popov L. E., Nitikin I. F., et al (2000) Late Ordovician brachiopods from the Otar Member of the Chu-Ili Range, south Kazakhstan, Palaeontology 43 5, 833-870

Williams A., Carlson S. J., et al (2000) Part H Brachiopoda (revised): Volumes 2 & 3, Linguliformea, Craniiformea, Rhynchonelliformea (part)., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, 1-919

Cocks L.R.M. (2005) Strophomenate Brachiopods from the late Ordovician Boda Limestone of Sweden: their systematics and implications for palaeogeography, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 3, 243-282

Zhan R.-B., Jin J. (2005) New data on the Foliomena fauna (Brachiopoda) from the Upper Ordovician of South China, Journal of Paleontology 79 4, 670-686

Cocks L. R. (2010) Caradoc Strophomenoid and Plectambonitoid Brachiopods from Wales and the Welsh Borderland, Palaeontology 53 5, 1155-1200

Hallan, J. (2000-current). Biology Catalog. Web compilation accessible at http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ (accessed June 2012). - 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

Palaeont. N. York, 8 (1) - 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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