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Nassariidae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	61264	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=61264

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Nassariidae

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	Buccinoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Nassariidae	Iredale 1916

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Nassariidae	family	belongs to Neogastropoda	stated without evidence	Addicott, 1970
Nassariidae	family	belongs to Buccinacea	stated without evidence	Hickman, 1980
Nassariidae	family	belongs to Buccinacea	stated with evidence	Ward and Blackwelder, 1987
Nassariidae	family	belongs to Buccinoidea	stated with evidence	Ward, 1992
Nassariidae	family	belongs to Muricoidea	implied	Beesley, 1998
Nassariidae	family	belongs to Buccinoidea	stated without evidence	Harzhauser and Mandic, 2001
Nassariidae	family	belongs to Muricoidea	stated with evidence	Todd, 2001
Nassariidae	family	belongs to Neogastropoda	stated without evidence	Wienrich, 2001
Nassariidae	family	belongs to Buccinoidea	stated with evidence	Jeffery, 2003

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

242

Extant Size (PBDB)

71 (29%)

First Recorded Appearance

72.1 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Motility

slow-moving (based on Nassariidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Nassariidae)

Ecospace Comments

ECOSPACE CODE: 325. LIFE HISTORY: Predatory carnivore 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
Bulliinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)	73	20.4 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Cylleninae subfamily	listed (PBDB)	2	3.60 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Dorsaninae subfamily	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Nassariinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)	1,706	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Amyclina genus	listed (PBDB)	35	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Bathynassa ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Bullia genus	listed (PBDB)	124	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Bulliopsis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	28	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	7.25 Ma Miocene
Colwellia ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	19	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	41.3 Ma Eocene
Cyllene genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	24	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Engoniophos ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	10	20.4 Ma Miocene	0.13 Ma Pleistocene
Ilyanassa genus	listed (PBDB)	141	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Leptarius ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Molopophorus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	81	61.6 Ma Paleocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Nassaria genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	31	59.2 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Pallacera genus	listed (PBDB)	38	33.9 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Phrontis genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	7	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Profundinassa genus	listed (PBDB)	1	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Pseudostrombus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Psilarius ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Sudonassarius ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	13	56.0 Ma Paleocene	37.2 Ma Eocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1916	Nassariidae Iredale
1970	Nassariidae Addicott p. 98
1980	Nassariidae Hickman p. 58
1984	Nassariidae Squires p. 31
1987	Nassariidae Ward and Blackwelder p. 132
1992	Nassariidae Ward p. 132

Year	Name and Author
1998	Nassariidae Beesley p. 829
2001	Nassariidae Harzhauser and Mandic p. 712
2001	Nassariidae Todd
2001	Nassariidae Wienrich p. 484
2003	Nassariidae Jeffery
2005	Nassariidae Bouchet et al. p. 255

References

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

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

Ward L. W., Blackwelder B.W. (1987) Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at Lee Creek Mine, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 61, 113-283

Ward L. W. (1992) Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America, Virginia Museum of Natural History 2

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

Jeffery P. (2003) GastroClass: Gastropod Classification Website

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

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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