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Calyptraeoidea
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| Rank | superfamily (PBDB) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Calyptraeoidea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status (PBDB) | extant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 204 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Extant Size (PBDB) | 84 (41%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 383 - 372 Ma Late/Upper Devonian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Motility | facultatively mobile, attached (based on Calyptraeoidea) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vision | limited (based on Gastropoda) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Diet | suspension feeder (based on Calyptraeoidea) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ecospace Comments | LIFE HISTORY: Suspension-feeders according to Todd (2001). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taphonomy | aragonite (based on Gastropoda) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | D. T. Dockery. 1993. The Streptoneuran gastropods, exclusive of the Stenoglossa, of the coffee sand (Campanian) of Northeastern Mississippi. Bulletin (Mississippi Office of Geology) 129:1-191 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Calyptraeidae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | Slipper Shell | 2,523 | 113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous | 0 Ma Extant |
| Gyrotropidae ✝ family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 5 | 93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| Trichotropidae family | listed (PBDB) | 95 | 383 Ma Late/Upper Devonian | 0 Ma Extant |
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1809 | Calyptraeacea Lamarck |
| 1809 | Calyptraeoidea Lamarck |
| 1964 | Calyptraeacea Sohl p. 366 |
| 1980 | Calyptraeacea Hickman p. 33 |
| 1984 | Calyptraeacea Squires p. 21 |
| 1987 | Calyptraeacea Squires p. 31 |
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1988 | Calyptraeoidea Ponder and Warén p. 300 |
| 1998 | Calyptraeoidea Beesley p. 772 |
| 2001 | Calyptraeoidea Todd |
| 2003 | Calyptraeoidea Jeffery |
| 2005 | Calyptraeoidea Bouchet et al. p. 249 |
References
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!
