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Exelissa ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	8606327	https://www.gbif.org/species/8606327
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	64714	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=64714

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Cerithiidae : Exelissa

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Sorbeoconcha : Cryptaulacidae : Exelissa

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	Sorbeoconcha	Ponder and Lindberg 1997
superfamily	Cerithioidea	(Férussac 1819)
family	Cryptaulacidae	Gründel 1976
subfamily	Exelissinae	Guzhov 2004
genus	Exelissa	Piette 1860

Scientific Name

Exelissa Piette, 1860

Name Published In

Bull. Soc. Géol. France, (2) 18

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Exelissa	genus	belongs to Procerithiidae	stated without evidence	Gründel and Parent, 2001
Exelissa	genus	belongs to Cerithiadae	stated without evidence	Kaim, 2004
Exelissa	genus	belongs to Exelissinae	stated with evidence	Guzhov, 2004

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

172 - 168 Ma
Middle Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

151 - 145 Ma
Late Jurassic

Motility

actively mobile (based on Cerithioidea)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

grazer (based on Cerithioidea)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Exelissa (Teliochilus) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)
Exelissa binodosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Exelissa diacritica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Exelissa distans species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Exelissa infraliasica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Exelissa multinodosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Exelissa praealpina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Exelissa solitudinis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Exelissa subformosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1860	Exelissa Piette
2001	Exelissa Gründel and Parent p. 15
2002	Exlessia Sepkoski, Jr.
2004	Exelissa Guzhov p. S501
2004	Exelissa Kaim p. 46

References

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

Gründel J., Parent H. (2001) Lower and Middle Tithonian marine gastropods from the Neuquen-Mendoza Basin, Argentina, Boletin del Instituto de Fisiografia y Geologia 71 1-2, 13-18

Guzhov A. V. (2004) Jurassic Gastropods of European Russia (Orders Cerithiiformes, Bucciniformes, and Epitoniiformes), Paleontological Journal 38, 457-562

Kaim A. (2004) The evolution of conch ontogeny in Mesozoic open sea gastropods, Palaeontologia Polonica 62, 183pp.

GBIF/Paleo Database - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

NZ cross ref or inferred from publ. title - 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

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bull. Soc. Géol. France, (2) 18 - 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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