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Glyphostoma

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	11160	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=11160

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Glyphostoma

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
subclass	Prosobranchia	Milne-Edwards 1848
superorder	Caenogastropoda	Cox 1959
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Conoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
subfamily	Clathurellinae	Adams and Adams 1858
genus	Glyphostoma	Gabb 1872

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Glyphostoma	subgenus	belongs to Mangilia	stated without evidence	Martin, 1904
Glyphostoma	subgenus	belongs to Pleurotoma	stated without evidence	Toula, 1911
Glyphostoma	genus	belongs to Gastropoda	stated without evidence	Mansfield, 1925
Glyphostoma	genus	belongs to Mangeliinae	stated with evidence	Woodring, 1928
Glyphostoma	subgenus	belongs to Clathurella	stated without evidence	Berry, 1942
Glyphostoma	genus	belongs to Turridae	stated with evidence	Gardner, 1948
Glyphostoma	genus	belongs to Mangeliinae	stated with evidence	MacNeil, 1960
Glyphostoma	genus	belongs to Mangeliinae	stated without evidence	Addicott, 1970
Glyphostoma	genus	belongs to Turridae	stated with evidence	Todd, 2001
Glyphostoma	genus	belongs to Neogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Glyphostoma	genus	belongs to Turridae	stated with evidence	Baluk, 2003
Glyphostoma	genus	belongs to Clathurellinae	stated with evidence	Rosenberg, 2005

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

8 (31%)

First Recorded Appearance

20.4 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Conoidea)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Conoidea)

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	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Glyphostoma (Euglyphostoma) subgenus	listed (PBDB)	6	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Glyphostoma (Glyphostoma) subgenus	listed (PBDB)	39	20.4 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Glyphostoma (Rhiglyphostoma) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)	8	20.4 Ma Miocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Glyphostoma addrina ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Glyphostoma andersoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	16.0 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Glyphostoma carinata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Glyphostoma caronensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Glyphostoma conradiana species	listed (PBDB)	8	3.60 Ma Pliocene	0 Ma Extant
Glyphostoma triniada ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Mangilia (Glyphostoma) obtusa species	listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1872	Glyphostoma Gabb
1904	Mangilia (Glyphostoma) Martin p. 154
1911	Pleurotoma (Glyphostoma) Toula pp. 483-484
1925	Glyphostoma Mansfield p. 26
1928	Glyphostoma Woodring p. 191
1942	Clathurella (Glyphostoma) Berry
1948	Glyphostoma Gardner p. 272
1960	Glyphostoma MacNeil p. 116

Year	Name and Author
1964	Glyphostoma Olsson p. 105
1970	Glyphostoma Addicott p. 136
1970	Glyphostoma Woodring p. 399
2001	Glyphostoma Todd
2002	Glyphostoma Sepkoski, Jr.
2003	Glyphostoma Baluk p. 31
2005	Glyphostoma Rosenberg

References

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

Martin G. C. (1904) Gastropoda, Maryland Geological Survey Miocene Text, 131-269

Mansfield W. C. (1925) Miocene gastropods and scaphopods from Trinidad, British West Indies, Proceedings of the United States National Museum 66 22, 9116-9125

Woodring W. P. (1928) Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results, Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies

Gardner J. A. (1948) Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina: Part 2. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 199 B, 179-310

MacNeil F. S. (1960) Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 339, 1-148

Olsson A. A. (1964) , Neogene Mollusks From Northwestern Ecuador

Addicott W.O. (1970) Miocene Gastropods and Biostratigraphy of the Kern River Area, California, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 642, 1-172

Woodring W. P. (1970) Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae)., United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306 D, 299-452

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

Baluk W. (2003) Middle Miocene (Badenian) gastropods from Korytnica, Poland; Part IV – Turridae, Acta Geological Polonica 53 1, 29-78

Rosenberg G. (2005) Malacolog 4.0: A database of Western Atlantic marine Mollusca, [WWW database (version 4.1.0)] URL http://data.acnatsci.org/wasp

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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