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Murchisonia turris ✝

Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)5798010https://www.gbif.org/species/5798010
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)74819https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=74819
Rankspecies
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pleurotomariida : Murchisoniidae : Murchisonia : Murchisonia turris
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Murchisoniina : Murchisoniidae : Murchisonia : Murchisonia turris
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-Bilateria
-EubilateriaAx 1987
-ProtostomiaGrobben 1908
-Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMolluscaLinnaeus 1758
classGastropodaCuvier 1797
subclassOrthogastropodaPonder and Lindberg 1997
orderMurchisoniinaCox and Knight 1960
superfamilyMurchisonioidea
familyMurchisoniidaeKoken 1896
genusMurchisoniad'Archiac and de Verneuil 1841
speciesMurchisonia turrisde Koninck 1876
Generic NameMurchisonia
Scientific NameMurchisonia turris (de Koninck, 1876)
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Murchisonia turrisspeciesbelongs to Murchisoniastated without evidencede Koninck, 1876
Murchisonia turrisspeciesbelongs to Murchisonia (Murchisonia)stated without evidenceTassell, 1982
Murchisonia turrisspeciesbelongs to Murchisoniastated without evidencePan and Cook, 2003
Murchisonia turrisspeciesbelongs to Murchisoniastated with evidenceWagner, 2017
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)1
First Recorded Appearance408 - 393 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian
Last Recorded Appearance408 - 393 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian
Motilityactively mobile (based on Murchisonia)
Visionlimited (based on Gastropoda)
Dietsuspension feeder (based on Murchisonia)
Taphonomyminor ribbing (based on Murchisonia)
Primary Reference (PBDB)L. G. de Koninck. 1876. Recherches sur les Fossiles Paleozoiques de la Novelle-Galles du Sud (Australie). Memoirs of the Royal Society of Science, Liege 6

Fossil Distribution

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1876Murchisonia turris de Koninck
1976Murchisonia turris Tassell
1978Murchisonia turris Tassell p. 29
1982Murchisonia (Murchisonia) turris Tassell pp. 26 - 28 figs. pl. 3 f. 16-20
2003Murchisonia turris Pan and Cook p. 42
2017Murchisonia turris Wagner p. 2956

References

de Koninck L. G. Recherches sur les Fossiles Paleozoiques de la Novelle-Galles du Sud (Australie), Memoirs of the Royal Society of Science, Liege 6
Tassell C. B. (1976) A revision of the gastropod fauna of the Lilydale Limestone (Early Devonian) of Victoria, Memoirs of the Natural History Museum, Victoria 37 1, 1-22
Tassell C. B. (1978) Gastropods from the Early Devonian Bell Point Limestone, Cape Liptrap Penninsula, Victoria, Memoirs of the Natural History Museum, Victoria 39 1, 19-32
Tassell C. B. (1982) Gastropods from the Early Devonian "Receptaculites" Limestone, Taemas, New South Wales, Records of the Queen Victoria Museum 77, 1-59
Pan H.Z., Cook A. G. (2003) Early Devonian gastropods from Zhusilenghaierhan region, Western Inner Mongolia, China, Journal of Paleontology 77 1, 31-43
Wagner P. J. (2017) Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database
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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