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Mathildidae

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Description

Mathildidae is a family of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the informal group of the Lower Heterobranchia.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	6785	https://www.gbif.org/species/6785
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	61072	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=61072

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Mathildidae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Allogastropoda : Mathildidae

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
order	Heterostropha
order	Allogastropoda	Haszprunar 1985
superfamily	Mathildoidea	Dall 1889
family	Mathildidae	Dall 1889

Scientific Name

Mathildidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Mathildidae	family	belongs to Gastropoda	stated without evidence	Turner, 1938
Mathildidae	family	belongs to Cerithiacea	stated without evidence	Sohl, 1964
Mathildidae	family	belongs to Architectonicoidea	stated with evidence	Ponder and Warén, 1988
Mathildidae	family	belongs to Architectonicoidea	implied	Beesley, 1998
Mathildidae	family	belongs to Architectonicoidea	stated without evidence	Todd, 2001
Mathildidae	family	belongs to Entomotaeniata	stated without evidence	Wienrich and Janssen, 2007
Mathildidae	family	belongs to Mathildoidea	stated with evidence	Gründel and Nützel, 2013

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

106

Extant Size (PBDB)

7 (6.6%)

First Recorded Appearance

247 - 242 Ma
Triassic

Motility

actively mobile

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore

Ecospace Comments

LIFE HISTORY: Browsing carnivore according to Todd (2001).

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

P. L. Beesley. 1998. Mollusca: the southern synthesis. Fauna of Australia 5

Common Name(s)

タクミニナ

Wikipedia

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

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Acrocoelum ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		21	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	41.3 Ma Eocene
Angulathilda ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	140 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Bathraspira ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Brookesena genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Carinathilda genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		40	216 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Echinimathilda ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Eomathilda ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Erratothilda genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	140 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Franconicilda ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Gymnothilda genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		16	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Jurilda ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		36	172 Ma Middle Jurassic	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Kaitangata ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		1	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Lemniscolittorina ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Mathilda genus	listed (PBDB)		210	176 Ma Early Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Mathilda ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		11	61.6 Ma Paleocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Opimilda genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Promathildia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		239	260 Ma Permian	7.25 Ma Miocene
Protuba ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Scalituba ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Siphonilda ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	212 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	212 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Spironema ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Tangarilda ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Teretrina ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		43	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Toulminella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	61.6 Ma Paleocene
Tricarilda ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		38	201 Ma Early Jurassic	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Tuba genus	listed (PBDB)		14	140 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	37.2 Ma Eocene
Tuba genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		124	140 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Turritellopsis genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Veterator ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Tubidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Tubidae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1889	Mathildidae Dall
1938	Mathildiidae Turner p. 81
1964	Mathildidae Sohl p. 362
1988	Mathildidae Ponder and Warén p. 308
1998	Mathildidae Beesley p. 859
2001	Mathildidae Todd
2007	Mathildidae Wienrich and Janssen p. 732
2013	Mathildidae Gründel and Nützel p. 804

References

Beesley P. L. (1998) Mollusca: the southern synthesis, Fauna of Australia 5

Turner F. E. (1938) Stratigraphy and Mollusca of the Eocene of western Oregon, Geological Society of America Special Paper 10, 1-130

Sohl N. F. (1964) Gastropods from the coffee Sand (Upper Cretaceous) of Mississippi, USGS Professional Paper 331C, 345-394

Ponder W. F., Warén A. (1988) Appendix: classification of the Caenogastropoda and Heterostropha - a list of the family-group names and higher taxa, Malacological Review Suppl. 4, 288-326

Todd J. A. (2001) Systematic list of gastropods in the Panama Paleontology Project collections

Wienrich G., Janssen R. (2007) Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein). Band 4 Gastropoda ab Mitridae, Backhuys Publishers BV Leiden 4, 643-954

Gründel J., Nützel A. (2013) Evolution and classification of Mesozoic mathildoid gastropods, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58, 803-826

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47(1-2): 1-397. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bouchet, P., Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47(1-2): 1-397 ISBN 3-925919-72-4. - via World Register of Marine Species

Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al., 1998: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26. 526. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

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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