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Kurtziella

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Description

Kurtziella is a genus of small, predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2303515	https://www.gbif.org/species/2303515
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	11237	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=11237

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Mangeliidae : Kurtziella

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Mangeliidae : Kurtziella

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	Prosobranchia	Milne-Edwards 1848
superorder	Caenogastropoda	Cox 1959
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Conoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Mangeliidae
genus	Kurtziella	Dall 1918

Scientific Name

Kurtziella Dall, 1918

Name Published In

Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 31

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Kurtziella	genus	belongs to Turridae	stated with evidence	Gardner, 1948
Kurtziella	genus	belongs to Neogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Kurtziella	genus	belongs to Mangeliinae	stated with evidence	Rosenberg, 2005

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

10 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

20.4 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Conoidea)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Conoidea)

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/Kurtziella

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Kurtziella (Cryoturris) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		32	20.4 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Kurtziella (Kurtziella) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		37	13.8 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Kurtziella acanthodes species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kurtziella accinctus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kurtziella antiochroa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kurtziella antipyrgus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kurtziella atrostyla species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	0.01 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Kurtziella cerina species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		13	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Kurtziella dorvilliae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kurtziella limonitella species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Kurtziella lissotropis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kurtziella margaritifera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kurtziella newcombei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kurtziella pagella species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kurtziella perryae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kurtziella plumbea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kurtziella powelli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kurtziella prionata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kurtziella rhysa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kurtziella serga species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	0.01 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Kurtziella serta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kurtziella stenotella species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kurtziella stephanophora species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kurtziella tachnodes species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kurtziella thektapleura species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kurtziella variegata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kurtziella venezuelana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mangelia cymatias species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1918	Kurtziella Dall
1948	Kurtziella Gardner p. 270
2001	Kurtziella Todd
2002	Kurtziella Sepkoski, Jr.
2005	Kurtziella Rosenberg p. 393

References

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

Gardner J. A. (1948) Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina: Part 2. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 199 B, 179-310

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

Rosenberg G. (2005) Malacolog 4.0: A database of Western Atlantic marine Mollusca, [WWW database (version 4.1.0)] URL http://data.acnatsci.org/wasp

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)

Liu J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. - via World Register of Marine Species

Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308. - via World Register of Marine Species

Aphia2006 - 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

Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 31 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - 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

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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