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Pleuroceridae

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Description

Pleuroceridae, common name pleurocerids, is a family of small to medium-sized freshwater snails, aquatic gilled gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cerithioidea.These snails have an operculum and typically a robust high-spired shell.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2665	https://www.gbif.org/species/2665
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	120621	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=120621

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pleuroceridae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Sorbeoconcha : Pleuroceridae

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
order	Sorbeoconcha	Ponder and Lindberg 1997
superfamily	Cerithioidea	(Férussac 1819)
family	Pleuroceridae	Thiele 1929

Scientific Name

Pleuroceridae

Name Published In

Fischer P. (1880-1887). Manuel de Conchyliologie et de Paléontologie Conchyliologique. Paris, Savy pp. XXIV + 1369 + pl. 23. Fasc. 1: pp. 1-112 [21. 9. 1880]. Fasc. 2: pp. 113-192 [16. 3. 1881]. Fasc. 3: pp. 193-304 [28. 7. 1881]. Fasc. 4: pp. 305-416 [5. 5. 1882]. Fasc. 5: pp. 417-512 [21. 2. 1883]. Fasc. 6: pp. 513-608 [20. 12. 1883]. Fasc. 7: pp. 609-688 [30. 6. 1884]. Fasc. 8: pp. 689-784 [29. 1. 1885]. Fasc. 9: pp. 785-896 [31. 8. 1885]. Fasc. 10: pp. 897-1008 [30. 4. 1886]. Fasc. 11: pp. 1009-1369 [15. 6. 1887]

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Pleuroceridae	family	belongs to Cerithiacea	stated without evidence	Nuttall, 1990
Pleuroceridae	family	belongs to Cerithioidea	stated with evidence	Strong, 2003

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

4 (40%)

First Recorded Appearance

140 - 133 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Motility

actively mobile (based on Cerithioidea)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

grazer (based on Cerithioidea)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

P. Bouchet, J.-P. Rocroi, and J. Frýda, B. Hausdorf, W. Ponder, A. Valdes, A. Warén. 2005. A nomenclator and classification of gastropod family-group names. Malacologia 47(1-2):1-368

Wikipedia

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

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Pleurocerinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		2	20.4 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Anculopsis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Apella genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cassiopella genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Circamelania genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Elimia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goniobasis genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		22	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	16.0 Ma Miocene
Gyrotoma genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Io genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Leptoxis genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Lithasia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithasiopsis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pleurocera genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anculosus dentatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Barotia pseudosulcospira species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Comalia fasiculata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Malanatria ypresiana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mycetopus falcatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Schistodesmus spimosus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Spaerium solidulum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Ceriphasiidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Ceriphasiidae
Strepomatidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Strepomatidae
Anaplocamidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Anaplocamidae
Ellipstomatidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Ellipstomatidae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1929	Pleuroceridae Thiele
1990	Pleuroceridae Nuttall p. 30
1991	Pleuroceriidae Kirby
2003	Pleuroceridae Strong
2005	Pleuroceridae Bouchet et al. p. 249
2011	Pleuroceriidae Strong et al.

References

Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P, et al (2005) A nomenclator and classification of gastropod family-group names, Malacologia 47 1-2, 1-368

Kirby R. E. (1991) A vertebrate fauna from the Upper Triassic Owl Rock Member of the Chinle Formation in Northern Arizona, Northern Arizona University, 1-476

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)

Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526. - via World Register of Marine Species

Strong E.E. & Lydeard C. (2019). Pleuroceridae P. Fischer, 1885. Pp. 74-80, in: C. Lydeard & C.S. Cummings (eds), Freshwater mollusks of the world. A distribution atlas. 242 pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. - via World Register of Marine Species

Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47(1-2): 1-397. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per included genera - 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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