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Pleurotomarioidea

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	58514	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=58514

Rank

superfamily (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pleurotomariida : Pleurotomarioidea

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	Orthogastropoda	Ponder and Lindberg 1997
superorder	Vetigastropoda	Salvini-Plawen 1980
order	Pleurotomariida	Cox and Knight 1960
superfamily	Pleurotomarioidea	(Swainson 1840)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Pleurotomarioidea	superfamily	belongs to Pleurotomariina	stated with evidence	Knight et al., 1960
Pleurotomarioidea	superfamily	belongs to Gastropoda	stated with evidence	Yochelson, 1977
Pleurotomarioidea	superfamily	belongs to Vetigastropoda	implied	Beesley, 1998
Pleurotomarioidea	superfamily	belongs to Vetigastropoda	stated without evidence	Todd, 2001
Pleurotomarioidea	superfamily	belongs to Pleurotomariina	stated without evidence	, 2002
Pleurotomarioidea	superfamily	belongs to Vetigastropoda	stated without evidence	Bouchet et al., 2005
Pleurotomarioidea	superfamily	belongs to Vetigastropoda	stated with evidence	Ferrari, 2014
Pleurotomarioidea	superfamily	belongs to Pleurotomariida	stated with evidence	Nützel et al., 2018

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

438

Extant Size (PBDB)

20 (4.6%)

First Recorded Appearance

499 - 485 Ma
Cambrian

Motility

actively mobile (based on Pleurotomarioidea)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

grazer (based on Pleurotomarioidea)

Ecospace Comments

LIFE HISTORY: Surficial, fully motile slow, grazer according to Bambach et al (2007).

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

W. Wenz. 1938. Handbuch der Paläozoologie; Gastropoda. Handbuch der Paläozoologie

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Catantostomatidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	388 Ma Middle Devonian	388 Ma Middle Devonian
Kittlidiscidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Lancedelliidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Phymatopleuridae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	409	388 Ma Middle Devonian	170 Ma Middle Jurassic
Pleurotomariidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	867	468 Ma Middle Ordovician	0 Ma Extant
Polytremariidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	347 Ma Carboniferous	339 Ma Carboniferous
Portlockiellidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	163	408 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	260 Ma Permian
Rhaphischismatidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	347 Ma Carboniferous	347 Ma Carboniferous
Stuorellidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	29	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Trochotomidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	28	269 Ma Permian	151 Ma Late Jurassic
Zygitidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	7	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Agniesella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	7	411 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	372 Ma Late/Upper Devonian
Raphistomella ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	237 Ma Middle Triassic	237 Ma Middle Triassic
Transylvanella ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1840	Pleurotomariacea Swainson
1960	Pleurotomariacea Knight et al. p. 197
1977	Pleurotomariacea Yochelson
1998	Pleurotomarioidea Beesley p. 664
2001	Pleurotomarioidea Todd
2004	Pleurotomarioidea Stilwell et al. p. 25
2005	Pleurotomarioidea Bouchet et al. p. 244
2014	Pleurotomarioidea Ferrari p. 569
2018	Pleurotomarioidea Nützel et al. p. 480
2020	Pleurotomarioidea Wagner

References

Wenz W. (1938) Handbuch der Paläozoologie; Gastropoda, Handbuch der Paläozoologie

Knight J. B., Cox L. R., et al (1960) Systematic descriptions, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Mollusca I 1, 169-339

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

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

Stilwell J. D., Zinsmeister W. J., et al (2004) Early Paleocene Mollusks of Antarctica: Systematics, Paleoecology and Paleobiogeographic Significance, Bulletins of American Paleontology 367

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

Ferrari S. M. (2014) Patellogastropoda and Vetigastropoda (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the marine Jurassic of Patagonia, Argentina, Historical Biology 26, 563-581

Nützel A., Kaim A., et al (2018) Middle Triassic (Anisian, Bithynian) gastropods from North Dobrogea (Romania) and their significance for gastropod recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction event, Papers in Palaeontology 4, 477-512

Wagner P. J. (2017) Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database

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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