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Aforia

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Description

Aforia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cochlespiridae.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2305265	https://www.gbif.org/species/2305265
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	10726	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=10726

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Cochlespiridae : Aforia

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Cochlespiridae : Aforia

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	Cochlespiridae
genus	Aforia	Dall 1889

Common Name

aforia

Scientific Name

Aforia Dall, 1889

Name Published In

Dall W.H. 1889. Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879-80), by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake", Lieut.-Commander C.D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., and Commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXIX. Report on the Mollusca. Part 2, Gastropoda and Scaphopoda. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College, 18: 1-492, pls. 10-40.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Aforia	genus	belongs to Turridae	stated without evidence	Durham, 1944
Aforia	genus	belongs to Cochlespirinae	stated with evidence	Olsson, 1964
Aforia	genus	belongs to Turriculidae	stated without evidence	Hickman, 1976
Aforia	genus	belongs to Turridae	stated without evidence	Moore, 1984
Aforia	genus	belongs to Turridae	stated with evidence	Todd, 2001
Aforia	genus	belongs to Neogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Aforia	genus	belongs to Cochlespiridae	stated with evidence	Bouchet et al., 2011

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

4 (67%)

First Recorded Appearance

41.3 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

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

Common Name(s)

Aforia

Wikipedia

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

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Aforia (Abyssaforia) subgenus	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Aforia (Dallaforia) subgenus	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Aforia (Steiraxis) subgenus	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Aforia abyssalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aforia campbelli ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	28.1 Ma Oligocene	28.1 Ma Oligocene
Aforia chosenensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aforia circinata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aforia clallamensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aforia crebristriata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aforia ecuadoriana species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	16.0 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Aforia goniodes species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aforia goodei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aforia hedleyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aforia hypomela species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aforia indomaris species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aforia inoperculata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aforia kincaidi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aforia kupriyanovi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aforia magnifica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aforia moskalevi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aforia multispiralis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aforia obesa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aforia persimilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aforia serranoi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aforia staminea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aforia tasmanica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aforia trilix species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aforia watsoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Danilacarina Bozzetti, 1997	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Cochlespiridae : *Danilacarina*
Irenosyrinx Dall, 1908	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Cochlespiridae : *Irenosyrinx*
Palaeoaforia Sysoev & Kantor, 1987	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Cochlespiridae : *Palaeoaforia*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1889	Aforia Dall
1908	Irenosyrinx Dall
1944	Irenosyrinx Durham p. 180
1944	Aforia Durham p. 183
1964	Aforia Olsson p. 111
1976	Aforia Hickman p. 80

Year	Name and Author
1976	Aforia Moore p. 37
1984	Aforia Moore p. 24
1997	Danilacarina Bozzetti
2001	Aforia Todd
2002	Aforia Sepkoski, Jr.
2011	Aforia Bouchet et al. p. 286

References

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

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

Olsson A. A. (1964) , Neogene Mollusks From Northwestern Ecuador

Hickman C. J. (1976) Bathyal gastropods of the family Turridae in the Early Oligocene Keasey Formation in Oregon, with a review of some deep-water genera in the Paleocene of the Eastern Pacific, Bulletins of American Paleontology 70 292, 1-119

Moore E. J. (1976) Oligocene marine mollusks from the Pittsburg Bluff Formation in Oregon, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 922, 1-66

Moore E. J. (1984) Molluscan paleontology and biostratigraphy of the Lower Miocene upper part of the Lincoln Creek Formation in southwestern Washington, Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 351, 1-42

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

Bouchet P., Kantor Yu. I., et al (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda), Journal of Molluscan Studies 77 3, 273-308 doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017

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)

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

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

Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard, 18 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Kantor Y.I., Harasewych M.G. & Puillandre N. (2016). A critical review of Antarctic Conoidea (Neogastropoda). Molluscan Research. 36(3): 153-206. - 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

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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