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Orinella

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Description

Orinella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2298817	https://www.gbif.org/species/2298817
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	12159	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=12159

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pyramidellidae : Orinella

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

doubtful

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	Heterobranchia	Gray 1840
superfamily	Pyramidelloidea
family	Pyramidellidae	Gray 1840
genus	Orinella	Dall & Bartsch 1904

Scientific Name

Orinella Dall & Bartsch, 1904

Name Published In

Dall W.H. & Bartsch P. (1904). Synopsis of the genera, subgenera and sections of the family Pyramidellidae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 17: 1-16.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Orinella	genus	belongs to Pyramidellidae	stated with evidence	Ward and Blackwelder, 1987
Orinella	genus	belongs to Heterostrophia	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

56.0 - 47.8 Ma
Eocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Pyramidellidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Pyramidellidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)
Orinella beaufortensis species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Orinella locklini species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orinella pliocena species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Orina A.Adams, 1870	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pyramidellidae : *Orina*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1987	Orinella Ward and Blackwelder p. 132
2002	Orinella Sepkoski, Jr.

References

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

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

Dall W.H. & Bartsch P. (1904). Synopsis of the genera, subgenera and sections of the family Pyramidellidae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 17: 1-16. - via World Register of Marine Species

van Aartsen, J. J. (1994). European Pyramidellidae: IV. The genera Eulimella, Anisocycla, Syrnola, Cingulina, Oscilla and Careliopsis. Bollettino Malacologico. 30(5-9): 85-109. - via World Register of Marine Species

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)

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

SN2000 unverified - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 17 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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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