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Streptacididae
| Description | The Streptacididae is an extinct taxonomic family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the informal group Lower Heterobranchia. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streptacididae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Rank | family | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Streptacididae | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Heterostropha : Streptacididae | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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| Scientific Name | Streptacididae | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Name Published In | Knight, J. B. (1931). The gastropods of the Saint Louis, Missouri, Pennsylvanian outlier: Aclisina and Streptacis. Journal of Paleontology. 5(1): 1−15, 2 pls. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opinions (PBDB) |
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| Status (PBDB) | extant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 18 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Extant Size (PBDB) | 1 (5.6%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 347 - 331 Ma Carboniferous | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Motility | actively mobile (based on Gastropoda) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vision | limited (based on Gastropoda) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taphonomy | aragonite (based on Gastropoda) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | J. B. Knight. 1931. The gastropods of the St. Louis, Missouri, Pennsylvanian outlier: Aclisina and Streptacis. Journal of Paleontology 5(1):1-15 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streptacididae |
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Donaldina ✝ genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 165 | 456 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician | 251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic | |
| Laxella ✝ genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 3 | 254 Ma Permian | 252 Ma Permian | |
| Mapesella genus | doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | ||||
| Royalella ✝ genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 22 | 318 Ma Carboniferous | 254 Ma Permian | |
| Streptacis ✝ genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 50 | 347 Ma Carboniferous | 83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| Turridina ✝ genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 3 | 388 Ma Middle Devonian | 388 Ma Middle Devonian | |
| Yoospira ✝ genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 2 | 359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian | 359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian |
Obsolete Names
| Name | Source | Taxon Rank | Taxonomy |
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| Streptacedidae | GBIF | family | Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Streptacedidae |
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1931 | Streptacididae Knight |
| 1960 | Streptacididae Knight et al. p. 322 |
| 1975 | Streptacididae Golikov and Starobogatov p. 214 |
| 1988 | Streptacedidae Erwin p. 571 |
| 1988 | Streptacididae Ponder and Warén p. 310 |
| 1996 | Streptacididae Bandel |
| 2002 | Streptacididae Bandel p. 49 |
| 2016 | Streptacididae Nützel and Ketwetsuriya p. 508 |
References
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!
