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Stromboidea

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	62365	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=62365

Rank

superfamily (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Stromboidea

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	Stromboidea	(Rafinesque 1815)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Stromboidea	superfamily	belongs to Discopoda	stated with evidence	Ponder and Warén, 1988
Stromboidea	superfamily	belongs to Littorinimorpha	implied	Beesley, 1998
Stromboidea	superfamily	belongs to Littorinimorpha	stated with evidence	Todd, 2001
Stromboidea	superfamily	belongs to Hypsogastropoda	stated without evidence	Harzhauser, 2004
Stromboidea	superfamily	belongs to Neontaenioglossa	stated without evidence	Stilwell et al., 2004
Stromboidea	superfamily	belongs to Littorinimorpha	stated with evidence	Bouchet et al., 2005
Stromboidea	superfamily	belongs to Caenogastropoda	stated without evidence	Vega et al., 2006
Stromboidea	superfamily	belongs to Littorinimorpha	stated without evidence	Harzhauser, 2007
Stromboidea	superfamily	belongs to Caenogastropoda	stated without evidence	Squires, 2013

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

690

Extant Size (PBDB)

120 (17%)

First Recorded Appearance

247 - 242 Ma
Triassic

Motility

actively mobile (based on Stromboidea)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

grazer (based on Stromboidea)

Ecospace Comments

LIFE HISTORY: Herbivorous omnivore according to Todd (2001).

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

M. A. Kosnik. 2002. personal opinion.

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Aporrhaidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1,987	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	0 Ma Extant
Colombellinidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		48	151 Ma Late Jurassic	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Hippochrenidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	59.2 Ma Paleocene	59.2 Ma Paleocene
Rimellidae ✝ family	listed (PBDB)
Rostellariidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		500	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Seraphsidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		93	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Strombidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	True Conch	1,792	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	0 Ma Extant
Struthiolariidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		161	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Thersiteidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		112	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Tylostomatidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		214	176 Ma Early Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Leiorhinus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	41.3 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1815	Strombacea Rafinesque
1964	Strombacea Sohl p. 366
1983	Strombacea Gliozzi and Malatesta p. 101
1984	Strombacea Squires p. 21
1987	Strombacea Squires p. 31
1988	Stromboidea Ponder and Warén p. 299
1992	Strombacea Stilwell and Zinsmeister p. 102
1998	Stromboidea Beesley p. 766

Year	Name and Author
2001	Stromboidea Todd
2003	Stromboidea Jeffery
2004	Stromboidea Harzhauser p. 127
2004	Stromboidea Stilwell et al. pp. 27, 30
2005	Stromboidea Bouchet et al. p. 252
2006	Stromboidea Vega et al. p. 325
2007	Stromboidea Harzhauser p. 105
2013	Stromboidea Squires p. 828

References

Kosnik M. A. (2002) personal opinion.

Sohl N. F. (1964) Gastropods from the coffee Sand (Upper Cretaceous) of Mississippi, USGS Professional Paper 331C, 345-394

Gliozzi E., Malatesta A. (1983) I molluschi del Paleocene di Baixa Chinhauanine nel bacino del Rio Massintonto (Maputo - Mozambico), Geologica Romana 22, 85-145

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

Stilwell J. D., Zinsmeister W. J. (1992) Molluscan Systematics and Biostratigraphy, Antarctic Research Series, AGU 55

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

Jeffery P. (2003) GastroClass: Gastropod Classification Website

Harzhauser M. (2004) Oligocene gastropod faunas for the Eastern Mediterranean (Mesohellenic Trough/Greece and Esfahan-Sirjan Basin/Central Iran), Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 248, 93-181

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

Vega F. J., García-Barrera P., et al (2006) El Espinal, a new plattenkalk facies locality from the Lower Cretaceous Sierra Madre Formation, Chiapas, southeastern Mexico, Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 23 3, 323-333

Harzhauser M. (2007) Oligocene and Aquitanian gastropod faunas from the Sultanate of Oman and their biogeographic implications for the western Indo-Pacific., Palaeontographica Abteilung A 280, 75-121

Squires R. L. (2013) West Coast North America Record of the Paleogene Marine Stromboid Gastropod Rimella and Paleobiogeography of the Genus, Journal of Paleontology 87 5, 826-841 doi:10.1666/13-018

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