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Latouchella ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	7857	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=7857

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Helcionelloida : Helcionellida : Coreospiridae : Latouchella

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	Helcionelloida	Peel 1991
order	Helcionellida	Geyer 1994
family	Coreospiridae	Knight 1952
genus	Latouchella	Cobbold 1921

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Latouchella	genus	belongs to Coreospiridae	stated with evidence	Knight et al., 1960
Latouchella	genus	belongs to Coreospiridae	stated without evidence	Rozanov et al., 1969
Latouchella	genus	belongs to Helcionellidae	stated with evidence	Runnegar and Jell, 1976
Latouchella	genus	belongs to Coreospiridae	stated without evidence	Missarzhevsky, 1989
Latouchella	genus	belongs to Latouchellidae	stated with evidence	Golikov and Starobogatov, 1989
Latouchella	genus	belongs to Cyrtonellida	stated without evidence	Bengtson, 1992
Latouchella	genus	belongs to Coreospiridae	stated without evidence	Parkhaev, 2002
Latouchella	genus	belongs to Helcionelloida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Latouchella	genus	belongs to Helcionellidae	stated with evidence	Gubanov et al., 2004
Latouchella	genus	belongs to Coreospiridae	stated with evidence	Bouchet et al., 2005

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

541 - 530 Ma
Cambrian

Last Recorded Appearance

504 - 501 Ma
Cambrian

Motility

slow-moving (based on Helcionellida)

Vision

blind (based on Helcionelloida)

Diet

detritivore (based on Helcionellida)

Ecospace Comments

DIMENSIONS & MORPHOLOGY: Based on L. arcuata. LIFE HISTORY: Data from personal opinion (Lin, pers. comm.)

Taphonomy

thin (based on Latouchella)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

E.S. Cobbold. 1921. The Cambrian horizons of Comley (Shropshire) and their Brachiopoda, Pteropoda, Gasteropoda and etc. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 76:325-386

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Archaeospira avalonensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	3	530 Ma Cambrian	530 Ma Cambrian
Cambroconus minimus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	541 Ma Cambrian	541 Ma Cambrian
Hubeispira nitida ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	541 Ma Cambrian	541 Ma Cambrian
Latouchella accordionata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	24	516 Ma Cambrian	504 Ma Cambrian
Latouchella adunca ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	520 Ma Cambrian	520 Ma Cambrian
Latouchella arcuata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	520 Ma Cambrian	520 Ma Cambrian
Latouchella costata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	3	541 Ma Cambrian	520 Ma Cambrian
Latouchella dimicostata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	541 Ma Cambrian	541 Ma Cambrian
Latouchella huangshandongensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	2	530 Ma Cambrian	530 Ma Cambrian
Latouchella jacobinica ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Latouchella memorabilis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	5	530 Ma Cambrian	530 Ma Cambrian
Latouchella orientalis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	504 Ma Cambrian	504 Ma Cambrian
Latouchella ostenfeldense ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	4	516 Ma Cambrian	516 Ma Cambrian
Latouchella sanxiaensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	530 Ma Cambrian	530 Ma Cambrian
Uncinaspira squamosa ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	541 Ma Cambrian	541 Ma Cambrian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1921	Latouchella Cobbold p. 366
1960	Latouchella Knight et al. p. 172
1969	Latouchella Rozanov et al. p. 168
1976	Latouchella Runnegar and Jell p. 117
1979	Archaeospira Yu p. 254
1979	Archaeospira Yü
1979	Yunanospira Yü
1980	Yunnanospira Jian p. 120
1981	Huanglingella Chen et al.
1981	Cambroconus Yu
1981	Hubeispira Yu
1984	Gibbaspira He
1984	Uncinaspira He
1989	Latouchella Golikov and Starobogatov p. 70
1989	Latouchella Missarzhevsky p. 177
1992	Archaeospira Bengtson p. 1026
1992	Hubeispira Bengtson p. 1027
1992	Latouchella Bengtson p. 1027

Year	Name and Author
2002	Cambroconus Parkhaev p. 35
2002	Gibbaspira Parkhaev p. 35
2002	Hubeispira Parkhaev p. 35
2002	Latouchella Parkhaev p. 35
2002	Uncinaspira Parkhaev p. 35
2002	Archaeospira Sepkoski, Jr.
2002	Cambroconus Sepkoski, Jr.
2002	Gibbaspira Sepkoski, Jr.
2002	Huanglingella Sepkoski, Jr.
2002	Hubeispira Sepkoski, Jr.
2002	Latouchella Sepkoski, Jr.
2002	Reticulatoconus Sepkoski, Jr.
2002	Uncinaspira Sepkoski, Jr.
2004	Latouchella Gubanov et al. p. 209
2005	Archaeospira Bouchet et al. p. 29
2005	Latouchella Bouchet et al. pp. 97, 241
2010	Latouchella Parkhaev and Demidenko p. 1051

References

Cobbold E.S. (1921) The Cambrian horizons of Comley (Shropshire) and their Brachiopoda, Pteropoda, Gasteropoda and etc., Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 76, 325-386

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

Rozanov A. Y., Missarzhevsky V. V., et al (1969) Tommotskiu jarus i problema nizhney granisty kembriya, Trudy Geoligske Institut Leningrad 206, 1-379

Runnegar B., Jell P.A. (1976) Australian Middle Cambrian molluscs and their bearing on early molluscan evolution, Alcheringa 1 1/2, 109-132

Yü W. (1979) Earliest Cambrian monoplacophorans and gastropods from western Hubei with their biostratigraphical significance, Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 18 3, 233-270

Chen M., Chen Y., et al (1981) The small shelly fossil assemblage in the limestone of the uppermost part of the Dengying Formation at Songlingpo, Yichang, Journal of the Wuhan College of Geology, Earth Science 1, 32-41

Yu W. (1981) New earliest Cambrian monoplacophorans and gastropods from W. Hubei and E. Yunnan, Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 20 6, 552-556

He T. G. (1984) Discovery of Lapworthella bella assemblage from Lower Cambrian Meishucun stage in Niuniuzhai, Leibo County, Sichuan Province, Professional Papers of Stratigraphy and Palaeontology 13, 23-34

Missarzhevsky V. V. (1989) Oldest skeletal fossils of late Precambrian and early Cambrian age: a review of recent work, Trudy Geologicheskogo Instituta AN SSSR 443, 1-231

Bengtson S. (1992) Proterozoic and earliest Cambrian skeletal metazoans, The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study, 1017-1034

Parkhaev P. Yu. (2002) Phylogenesis and the systematics of the Cambrian univalved mollusks, Paleontological Journal 35 1, 27-39

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Gubanov A. P., Fernández-Remolar D.C., et al (2004) Early Cambrian molluscs from Sierra de Córdoba (Spain), Géobios 37 2, 199-215

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

Parkhaev P. Y., Demidenko Y. (2010) Zooproblematica and mollusca from the Lower Cambrian Meishucun section (Yunnan, China) and taxonomy and systematics of the Cambrian small shelly fossils of China, Paleontological Journal 44 8, 883-1161 doi:10.1134/s0031030110080010

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