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Calyptraeidae

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Calyptraeidae

Columbus County, North Carolina, USA

Crepidula sp.

Prince George County, Virginia, USA

Calyptraeidae

Columbus County, North Carolina, USA

Crepidula sp.

Prince George County, Virginia, USA

Calyptraeidae

Columbus County, North Carolina, USA

Crepidula sp.

Prince George County, Virginia, USA

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	59508	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=59508

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Calyptraeidae

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
superorder	Hypsogastropoda
infraorder	Littorinimorpha	Golikov and Starobogtov 1975
superfamily	Calyptraeoidea	Lamarck 1809
family	Calyptraeidae	Lamarck 1809

Common Name

slipper shell

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Calyptraeidae	family	belongs to Taenioglossa	stated without evidence	Martin, 1904
Calyptraeidae	family	belongs to Gastropoda	stated without evidence	Clark and Arnold, 1923
Calyptraeidae	family	belongs to Mesogastropoda	stated without evidence	Addicott, 1970
Calyptraeidae	family	belongs to Calyptraeacea	stated without evidence	Hickman, 1980
Calyptraeidae	family	belongs to Calyptraeoidea	stated with evidence	Ponder and Warén, 1988
Calyptraeidae	family	belongs to Mesogastropoda	stated without evidence	Squires, 1988
Calyptraeidae	family	belongs to Calyptraeacea	stated without evidence	Beu et al., 1990
Calyptraeidae	family	belongs to Calyptraeoidea	implied	Beesley, 1998
Calyptraeidae	family	belongs to Calyptraeoidea	stated without evidence	Camacho et al., 2000
Calyptraeidae	family	belongs to Caenogastropoda	stated without evidence	Wienrich, 2001
Calyptraeidae	family	belongs to Calyptraeoidea	stated with evidence	Todd, 2001
Calyptraeidae	family	belongs to Calyptraeoidea	stated without evidence	Harzhauser and Mandic, 2001
Calyptraeidae	family	belongs to Calyptraeoidea	stated with evidence	Marshall, 2003
Calyptraeidae	family	belongs to Calyptraeoidea	stated without evidence	Landau and Marques da Silva, 2010

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

161

Extant Size (PBDB)

79 (49%)

First Recorded Appearance

113 - 109 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Motility

facultatively mobile, attached (based on Calyptraeidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Calyptraeidae)

Ecospace Comments

LIFE HISTORY: Suspension-feeders according to Todd (2001).

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Bostrycapulus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	98	20.4 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Calyptraea genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	689	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Calyptroides ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Calyptropsis genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Clypeola genus	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Crepidula genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	874	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Crepipatella genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	42	20.4 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Crucibulum genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	403	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Ergaea genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	9	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Galeropsis ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	3	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	23.0 Ma Miocene
Grandicrepidula genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Maoricrypta genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	26	37.2 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Sigapatella genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	48	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Thylacus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	37	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Trochita genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	274	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Verticumbo genus	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Zegalerus genus	listed (PBDB)	15	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1809	Calyptraeidae Lamarck
1904	Calyptraeidae Martin
1923	Calyptraeidae Clark and Arnold p. 167
1938	Calyptraeidae Turner p. 89
1970	Calyptraeidae Addicott p. 60
1980	Calyptraeidae Hickman p. 33
1984	Calyptraeidae Squires p. 21
1987	Calyptraeidae Squires p. 31
1988	Calyptraeidae Ponder and Warén p. 300
1988	Calyptraeidae Squires p. 11
1990	Calyptraeidae Beu et al.

Year	Name and Author
1998	Calyptraeidae Beesley p. 773
1999	Calyptraeidae Squires p. 18
2000	Calyptraeidae Camacho et al. p. 66
2001	Calyptraeidae Harzhauser and Mandic p. 701
2001	Calyptraeidae Todd
2001	Calyptraeidae Wienrich p. 418
2002	Calyptraeidae Harzhauser
2003	Calyptraeidae Marshall p. 117
2005	Calyptraeidae Bouchet et al. p. 249
2010	Calyptraeidae Landau and Marques da Silva p. 24
2010	Calyptraeidae Matsubara et al. p. 129

References

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

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

Clark B. L., Arnold R. (1923) Fauna of the Sooke Formation Vancouver Island, University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 14 5, 123-234

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

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

Hickman C. S. (1980) Paleogene Marine Gastropods of the Keasey Formation in Oregon, Bulletins of American Paleontology 78 310, 1-112

Squires R. L. (1984) Megapaleontology of the Eocene Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, California, Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 350, 1-76

Squires R. L. (1987) Eocene molluscan paleontology of the Whitaker Peak area, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California, Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 388, 1-93

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

Squires R. L. (1988) Eocene Macropaleontology of Northern Lockwood Valley, Ventura County, California, Contributions in Science (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) 398, 1-23

Beu A. G., Maxwell P.A., et al (1990) Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand, New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 58

Camacho H. H., Chiesa J. O., et al (2000) Invertebrado marinos eocenos de los cerros Palique y Castillo, subdoeste de la provincia de Santa Cruz, Argentina, Ameghiniana 37 1, 59-72

Harzhauser M., Mandic O. (2001) Late Oligocene gastropods and bivalves from the Lower and Upper Austrian Molasse Basin, Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Schriftenreihe der Erdwissenschaftlichen Komimissionen 14, 671-795

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

Wienrich G. (2001) Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein), Gastropoda bis Cancellariidae 3, 385-639

Harzhauser M. (2002) Marine und brachyhaline Gastropoden aus dem Karpatium des Korneubuger Beckens und der Kreuzstettener Bucht (Österreich, Untermiozän), Beiträge zur Paläontologie 27, 61-159

Marshall B. A. (2003) A review of the Recent and late Cenozoic Calyptraeidae of New Zealand (Mollusca: Gastropoda), The Veliger 46 2, 117-144

Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P, et al (2005) A nomenclator and classification of gastropod family-group names, Malacologia 47 1-2, 1-368

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

Matsubara T., Kurita H., et al (2010) Eocene Mollusca from the Tainohata Formation in Kobe City, southwest Japan, Paleontological Research 14 2, 119-144 doi:10.2517/1342-8144-14.2.119

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