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Typhinellus

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Description

Typhinellus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2304121	https://www.gbif.org/species/2304121
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	11816	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=11816

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricidae : Typhinellus

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	Muricoidea	de Costa 1776
family	Muricidae	Rafinesque 1815
genus	Typhinellus	Jousseaume 1880

Scientific Name

Typhinellus Jousseaume, 1880

Name Published In

Jousseaume, F. P. (1880). Division méthodique de la famille des Purpuridés. Le Naturaliste. 2(42): 335-338.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Typhinellus	subgenus	belongs to Typhis	stated with evidence	Keen, 1944
Typhinellus	genus	belongs to Typhinae	implied	Wilson, 1994
Typhinellus	subgenus	belongs to Typhis	stated with evidence	Todd, 2001
Typhinellus	genus	belongs to Neogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Typhinellus	genus	belongs to Muricidae	stated with evidence	Landau et al., 2007

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (67%)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 20.4 Ma
Miocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Muricidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Muricidae)

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/Typhinellus

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Typhinellus amoenus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Typhinellus androyensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Typhinellus bicolor species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Typhinellus chipolanus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Typhinellus constrictus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Typhinellus insolitus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Typhinellus jacolombi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Typhinellus labiatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Typhinellus laminatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Typhinellus lamyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Typhinellus mirbatensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Typhinellus occlusus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Typhis (Typhinellus) chipolanus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Typhis (Typhinellus) sowerbii species	listed (PBDB)		8	7.25 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1880	Typhinellus Jousseaume
1944	Typhis (Typhinellus) Keen p. 56
1969	Typhis (Typhinellus) Gertman p. 154
1994	Typhinellus Wilson p. 56
2001	Typhis (Typhinellus) Todd
2002	Typhinellus Sepkoski, Jr.
2007	Typhinellus Landau et al. p. 57

References

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

Gertman R. L. (1969) Cenozoic Typhinae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of the Western Atlantic region, Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 7 4, 143-192

Wilson B. (1994) , Australian Marine Shells 2

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

Landau B., Houart R., et al (2007) The Early Pliocene Gastropoda (Mollusca) of Estepona, Southern Spain. Part 7: Muricidae, Palaeontos 11, 1-87

Aphia2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Le Naturaliste, 1, no. 42 - 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: 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

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)

Jousseaume, F. P. (1880). Division méthodique de la famille des Purpuridés. Le Naturaliste. 2(42): 335-338. - via World Register of Marine Species

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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