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Urosalpinx

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Description

Urosalpinx is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropods in the murex snail family, Muricidae.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2304409	https://www.gbif.org/species/2304409
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	11175	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=11175

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricidae : Urosalpinx

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Buccinidae : Urosalpinx

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	Buccinoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Buccinidae	Rafinesque 1815
genus	Urosalpinx	Stimpson 1865

Scientific Name

Urosalpinx Stimpson, 1865

Name Published In

Stimpson W. 1865. On certain genera and families of zoophagous gasteropods. American Journal of Conchology, 1: 55-64, pl. 8-9

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Hanetia	genus	belongs to Buccinidae	stated with evidence	Marks, 1951
Hanetia	subgenus	belongs to Cantharus	stated without evidence	Barrios, 1960
Hanetia	genus	belongs to Buccinidae	stated with evidence	Woodring, 1964
Hanetia	genus	belongs to Neogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (25%)

First Recorded Appearance

33.9 - 28.4 Ma
Oligocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Buccinidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Buccinidae)

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/Urosalpinx

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Fusus subrusticus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Hanetia boggsi ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	5.33 Ma Miocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Hanetia chiriquiensis species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Hanetia cymioides ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	5.33 Ma Miocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Hanetia dalli ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		44	16.0 Ma Miocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Hanetia ecuadorensis ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	5.33 Ma Miocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Hanetia mengeana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		4	5.33 Ma Miocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Urosalpinx archipatagonica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Urosalpinx baudoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Urosalpinx bonneti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Urosalpinx cala species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Urosalpinx cinerea species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		28	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Urosalpinx coombsi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Urosalpinx cossmanni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	28.4 Ma Oligocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Urosalpinx devriesi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Urosalpinx grippi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Urosalpinx haneti species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Urosalpinx hillsboroensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Urosalpinx kirbyi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	48.6 Ma Eocene	48.6 Ma Eocene
Urosalpinx lancellottii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Urosalpinx merriami species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Urosalpinx phriknos species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Urosalpinx sclera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Urosalpinx stimpsoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Urosalpinx suffolkensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Urosalpinx tribaka species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Urosalpinx trossulus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Urosalpinx vaughanensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Urosalpinx verrilli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Urosalpinx xustris species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vitularia curtansata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Arosalpinx Johnston, 1891	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricidae : *Arosalpinx*
Zulloia Petuch, 1994	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricidae : *Zulloia*
Hanetia Jousseaume, 1880	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricidae : *Hanetia*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1880	Hanetia Jousseaume
1951	Hanetia Marks p. 388
1960	Cantharus (Hanetia) Barrios p. 283
1964	Hanetia Woodring p. 256
2002	Hanetia Sepkoski, Jr.

References

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

Marks J. G. (1951) Miocene stratigraphy and paleontology of Southwestern Ecuador, Bulletins of American Paleontology 33 139, 1-448

Barrios M. (1960) Algunos moluscos del Terciario Medio de Colombia, Boletin Geologico 6 1-3, 213-306

Woodring W. P. (1964) Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Columbellidae to Volutidae)., United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306 C, 241-297

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

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

Stimpson W. 1865. On certain genera and families of zoophagous gasteropods. American Journal of Conchology, 1: 55-64, pl. 8-9 - via World Register of Marine Species

Amer. J. Conch., 1 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Ruppert et al., 2004 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Barco A., Herbert G., Houart R., Fassio G. & Oliverio M. (2017). A molecular phylogenetic framework for the subfamily Ocenebrinae (Gastropoda, Muricidae). Zoologica Scripta. 46: 322-335. - via World Register of Marine Species

Stimpson W. 1865. On certain genera and families of zoophagous gasteropods. American Journal of Conchology, 1: 55-64, pl. 8-9 - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

WoRMS (2010) Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.eu/ - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

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)

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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