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Cocculinidae

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Description

Cocculinidae is a family of sea snails, deep-sea limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Cocculiniformia (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2865	https://www.gbif.org/species/2865
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	59772	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=59772

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Lepetellida : Cocculinidae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Cocculinidae

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
superorder	Cocculiniformia	Hazsprunar 1987
superfamily	Cocculinoidea	Dall 1882
family	Cocculinidae	Dall 1882

Scientific Name

Cocculinidae

Name Published In

Dall W.H. (1882). On certain limpets and chitons from the deep waters off the eastern coast of the United States. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 4: 400-414.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Cocculinidae	family	belongs to Cocculinacea	stated with evidence	Knight et al., 1960
Cocculinidae	family	belongs to Cocculinoidea	implied	Beesley, 1998
Cocculinidae	family	belongs to Archaeogastropoda	stated without evidence	Wienrich, 2001
Cocculinidae	family	belongs to Cocculinacea	stated without evidence	Kosnik, 2002
Cocculinidae	family	belongs to Cocculinoidea	stated with evidence	Bouchet et al., 2005

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

3 (75%)

First Recorded Appearance

112 - 109 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Motility

actively mobile

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

grazer

Ecospace Comments

LIFE HISTORY: Grazer on soft-grained substrates according to Todd (2001); bacterial grazer according to Kiel & Goedert (2006).

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

P. L. Beesley. 1998. Mollusca: the southern synthesis. Fauna of Australia 5

Common Name(s)

ワタゾコシロガサ

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Coccocrater genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Coccopigya genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Cocculina genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		24	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Fedikovella genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Macleaniella genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Notocrater genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Paracocculina genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Tectisumen genus	listed (PBDB)
Teuthirostria genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1882	Cocculinidae Dall
1960	Cocculinidae Knight et al. p. 236
1998	Cocculinidae Beesley p. 656
2001	Cocculinidae Wienrich p. 394
2002	Cocculinidae Kosnik p. 236
2005	Cocculinidae Bouchet et al. p. 245

References

Beesley P. L. (1998) Mollusca: the southern synthesis, Fauna of Australia 5

Knight J. B., Cox L. R., et al (1960) Systematic descriptions, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Mollusca I 1, 169-339

Wienrich G. (2001) Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein), Gastropoda bis Cancellariidae 3, 385-639

Kosnik M. A. (2002) personal opinion.

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

McLean J.H. & Harasewych M.G. (1995). Review of Western Atlantic species of Cocculinid and Pseudococculinid limpets, with descriptions of new species (Gastropoda: Cocculiniformia). Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Contributions in Science, 453: 1-33 - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

Dall W.H. (1882). On certain limpets and chitons from the deep waters off the eastern coast of the United States. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 4: 400-414. - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

Marshall B. A. (1986). Recent and Tertiary Cocculinidae and Pseudococculinidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from New Zealand and New South Wales. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 12: 505-546 [nominal year of publication - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

Bouchet, P., Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47(1-2): 1-397 ISBN 3-925919-72-4. - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

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)

Millard, V., 1997: null. Classification of Mollusca: A classification of world wide Mollusca. 1-544. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

Bouchet, P., Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47(1-2): 1-397 ISBN 3-925919-72-4. - 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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