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Searlesia

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2304947	https://www.gbif.org/species/2304947
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	11659	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=11659

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Buccinidae : Searlesia

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	Searlesia	Harmer 1914

Scientific Name

Searlesia Harmer, 1914

Name Published In

Plioc. Moll. Gt. Brit., 1

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Searlesia	genus	belongs to Chrysodomidae	stated without evidence	Clark and Arnold, 1923
Searlesia	genus	belongs to Neptuneidae	stated without evidence	Durham, 1944
Searlesia	genus	belongs to Buccinidae	stated with evidence	Ladd, 1977
Searlesia	genus	belongs to Neogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (29%)

First Recorded Appearance

61.6 - 59.2 Ma
Paleocene

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Fusinus mitgaui species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Searlesia branneri ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	28.1 Ma Oligocene	28.1 Ma Oligocene
Searlesia dentifera ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	28.1 Ma Oligocene	28.1 Ma Oligocene
Searlesia mitgaui ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	28.1 Ma Oligocene	28.1 Ma Oligocene
Searlesia modesta species	listed (PBDB)		1	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Searlesia olympicensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Searlesia portolaensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1914	Searlesia Harmer p. 135
1923	Searlesia Clark and Arnold p. 159
1944	Searlesia Durham p. 176
1977	Searlesia Ladd p. 49
2002	Searlesia Sepkoski, Jr.

References

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

Clark B. L., Arnold R. (1923) Fauna of the Sooke Formation Vancouver Island, University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 14 5, 123-234

Durham J. W. (1944) Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington, University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 27, 101 -212

Ladd H. S. (1977) Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Eratoidae through Harpidae), United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 533, 1-84

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: 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

Plioc. Moll. Gt. Brit., 1 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Abbott, Robert Tucker, 1974: null. American Seashells: The Marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of North America. 2nd ed.. 663. - 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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