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Ferrissia

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Description

Ferrissia is a genus of small, air-breathing freshwater limpets, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrissia, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2093879	https://www.gbif.org/species/2093879
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	83656	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=83656

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Planorbidae : Ferrissia

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Basommatophora : Planorbidae : Ferrissia

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

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	Pulmonata	Cuvier 1817
-	Basommatophora
-	Hygrophila	Ferussac 1822
superfamily	Planorboidea	Rafinesque 1815
family	Planorbidae	Rafinesque 1815
subfamily	Bulininae	Fischer and Crosse 1880
tribe	Miratestini	Sarasin and Sarasin 1897
genus	Ferrissia	B.Walker 1903

Scientific Name

Ferrissia B.Walker, 1903

Name Published In

Nautilus, 17

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Ferrissia	genus	belongs to Ferrissinae	stated without evidence	Shoshani et al., 1989
Ferrissia	genus	belongs to Planorbidae	stated with evidence	Harzhauser and Kowalke, 2002
Ferrissia	genus	belongs to Miratestini	stated with evidence	Bouchet et al., 2005
Ferrissia	genus	belongs to Ancylidae	stated without evidence	Kittle and Portell, 2010

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

3 (43%)

First Recorded Appearance

55.8 - 50.3 Ma
Eocene

Environment

freshwater (based on Planorbidae)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Pulmonata)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Pulmonata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. Shoshani, D. C. Fisher, and J. M. Zawiskie, S. J. Thurlow, S. L. Shoshani, W. S. Benninghoff, F. H. Zoch. 1989. The Shelton Mastodon Site: Multidisciplinary study of a late Pleistocene (Twocreekan) locality in Southeastern Michigan. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 27(14):393-436

Common Name(s)

Septenmützenschnecken, Ancylids

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrissia

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Ferrissia angustus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ferrissia arionoides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ferrissia bahamensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ferrissia bayacalifornica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ferrissia californica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ferrissia crenellata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Ferrissia dalli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ferrissia deperdita species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	16.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Ferrissia depressus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ferrissia dimici species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ferrissia dohrnianus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ferrissia floridensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ferrissia gentilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ferrissia hendersoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ferrissia illyrica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ferrissia irrorata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ferrissia mcneili species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ferrissia neozelanica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ferrissia neumayri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ferrissia nipponica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ferrissia occidentalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ferrissia parallelus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ferrissia platyrhynchus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ferrissia pontileviensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ferrissia reticulatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ferrissia rivularis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ferrissia senckenbergiana species	listed (PBDB)		1	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Ferrissia truci ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Ferrissia vanhyningi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ferrissia walkeri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ferrissia wautieri ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	3.60 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Ferrissia wittmanni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	20.4 Ma Miocene	12.7 Ma Miocene

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Watsonula Mirolli, 1960	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Planorbidae : *Watsonula*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1903	Ferrissia Walker
1989	Ferrissia Shoshani et al. p. 435
2002	Ferrissia Harzhauser and Kowalke p. 75
2005	Ferrissia Bouchet et al.
2010	Ferrissia Kittle and Portell p. 30

References

Shoshani J., Fisher D. C., et al (1989) The Shelton Mastodon Site: Multidisciplinary study of a late Pleistocene (Twocreekan) locality in Southeastern Michigan, Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 27 14, 393-436

Harzhauser M., Kowalke T. (2002) Sarmatian (Late Middle Miocene) Gastropod Assemblages of the Central Paratethys, Facies 46, 57-82

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

Kittle B. A., Portell R. W. (2010) Mollusca: Fort Thompson Formation (Late Pleistocene), Florida Fossil Invertebrates 12, 1-32

(as Ancylidae) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nautilus, 17 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Gittenberger et al. (2004) - via Taxa Watermanagement the Netherlands (TWN)

SN2000/Boss, 1982 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Boss, 1982, PaleoDB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Gloer, P.(2002) - via Taxa Watermanagement the Netherlands (TWN)

CLECOM (2006) - via Taxa Watermanagement the Netherlands (TWN)

Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al., 1998: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26. 526. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

von Proschwitz, Ted (2015) Artlista svenska land- och sötvattensmollusker TedvP 20140206_20150202.xlsx via mail to Johan Liljeblad 2015-02-04. - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

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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