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Persicula

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	11509	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=11509

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Cystiscidae : Persicula

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	Muricoidea	de Costa 1776
family	Cystiscidae	Stimpson 1865
subfamily	Persiculinae	Coovert and Coovert 1995
genus	Persicula	Schumacher 1817

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Persicula	subgenus	belongs to Marginella	stated without evidence	Mansfield, 1925
Persicula	subgenus	belongs to Marginella	stated with evidence	Gardner, 1947
Persicula	genus	belongs to Marginellidae	stated with evidence	Olsson and Harbison, 1953
Persicula	genus	belongs to Marginellidae	stated without evidence	DuBar, 1958
Persicula	genus	belongs to Marginellidae	stated with evidence	Woodring, 1970
Persicula	genus	belongs to Marginellidae	implied	Wilson, 1993
Persicula	genus	belongs to Marginellidae	stated with evidence	Petuch, 1997
Persicula	genus	belongs to Cystiscidae	stated with evidence	Todd, 2001
Persicula	genus	belongs to Neogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Persicula	genus	belongs to Persiculinae	stated with evidence	Landau and Marques da Silva, 2010

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

5 (20%)

First Recorded Appearance

47.8 - 41.3 Ma
Eocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Cystiscidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Cystiscidae)

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
Marginella (Persicula) calhounensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	4	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Marginella (Persicula) progravida ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Persicula (Rabicea) propeobesa ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Persicula amplior ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Persicula cercadensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	4	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Persicula cordorae species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Persicula dockeryi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Persicula falconensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Persicula hodsoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Persicula interruptalineata species	listed (PBDB)	15	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Persicula lavelana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	8	20.4 Ma Miocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Persicula maracaibensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Persicula mirandana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Persicula obsesa species	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Persicula ovula ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Persicula persicula species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Persicula propeobesa ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	6	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Persicula reussi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	2	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Persicula suwanneensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Persicula venezuelana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	18	20.4 Ma Miocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Persicula zuliana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1817	Persicula Schumacher
1827	Rabicea Gray
1925	Marginella (Persicula) Mansfield p. 41
1947	Marginella (Persicula) Gardner p. 398
1953	Persicula Olsson and Harbison p. 197
1958	Persicula DuBar p. 191
1970	Persicula Woodring p. 332

Year	Name and Author
1970	Persicula (Rabicea) Woodring p. 333
1993	Persicula Wilson p. 142
1997	Persicula Petuch p. 134
2001	Persicula Todd
2002	Persicula Sepkoski, Jr.
2002	Rabicea Sepkoski, Jr.
2010	Persicula Landau and Marques da Silva p. 82

References

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

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

Gardner J. R. (1947) The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 142A-H, 1-709

Olsson A. A., Harbison A. (1953) Pliocene Mollusca of Southern Florida, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Monograph 8, 1-457

DuBar J. R (1958) Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Late Neogene strata of the Caloosahatchee River area of southern Florida, Florida Geological Survey Bulletin 40, 1-267

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

Wilson B. (1993) , Australian Marine Shells 1

Petuch E. J. (1997) A new gastropod fauna from an Oligocene back-reef lagoonal environment in west central Florida., The Nautilus 110 4, 122-138

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

Landau B., Marques da Silva C. (2010) Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy, Palaeontos 19, 1-221

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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