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Acosarina ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4870246	https://www.gbif.org/species/4870246
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	26652	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=26652

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Brachiopoda : Rhynchonellata : Orthida : Schizophoriidae : Acosarina

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	Rhynchonellata	Williams et al. 1996
order	Orthida	Schuchert and Cooper 1932
suborder	Dalmanellidina	Moore 1952
superfamily	Enteletoidea	Waagen 1884
family	Schizophoriidae	Schuchert and Le Vene 1929
genus	Acosarina	Cooper & Grant 1969

Scientific Name

Acosarina Cooper & Grant, 1969

Name Published In

Smithson. Contr. Paleobiol. No. 1

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Acosarina	genus	belongs to Schizophoriidae	stated with evidence	Williams et al., 2000
Acosarina	genus	belongs to Orthida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

304 - 299 Ma
Carboniferous

Last Recorded Appearance

252 - 251 Ma
Phanerozoic

Motility

stationary, attached (based on Orthida)

Vision

blind (based on Rhynchonellata)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Orthida)

Taphonomy

low Mg calcite (based on Brachiopoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant. 1969. New Permian brachiopods from west Texas. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 1:1-20

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Acosarina antesulcata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Acosarina baylorensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Acosarina circular ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Acosarina dorashamensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	24	279 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Acosarina dunbari ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Acosarina fecunda ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Acosarina grandis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Acosarina incisiva ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	7	272 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Acosarina janiceps ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	269 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Acosarina juresanensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	10	299 Ma Carboniferous	260 Ma Permian
Acosarina mesoplatys ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	100	296 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Acosarina minuta ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	266	304 Ma Carboniferous	252 Ma Permian
Acosarina monocosta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	304 Ma Carboniferous	304 Ma Carboniferous
Acosarina peculiaris ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Acosarina rectimarginata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	9	299 Ma Carboniferous	272 Ma Permian
Acosarina regularis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	260 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Acosarina tumita ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	279 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1969	Acosarina Cooper and Grant p. 2
1990	Sunacosarina Liang p. 355
2000	Acosarina Williams et al. p. 842
2002	Acosarina Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Cooper G. A., Grant R. E. (1969) New Permian brachiopods from west Texas, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 1, 1-20

Liang W. P. (1990) Lengwu Formation of Permian and its Brachiopod Fauna in Zhejiang Province, Geological Memoirs 2 10, 1-522

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

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

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

Smithson. Contr. Paleobiol. No. 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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