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Sisenna ✝

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Description

Lucius Cornelius Sisenna (c. 120 – 67 BC) was a Roman soldier, historian, and annalist.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3245051	https://www.gbif.org/species/3245051
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	9250	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=9250

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pleurotomariida : Pleurotomariidae : Sisenna

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Murchisoniina : Gosseletinidae : Sisenna

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	Orthogastropoda	Ponder and Lindberg 1997
order	Murchisoniina	Cox and Knight 1960
superfamily	Eotomarioidea	Wenz 1938
family	Gosseletinidae	Wenz 1938
genus	Sisenna	Koken 1896

Scientific Name

Sisenna Koken, 1896

Name Published In

Jahrb. Geol. Reichsanst., 46

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Sisenna	subgenus	belongs to Pleurotomaria	stated with evidence	Trechmann, 1918
Sisenna	genus	belongs to Omospirinae	stated with evidence	Knight et al., 1960
Sisenna	genus	belongs to Raphistomatidae	stated with evidence	Szabo, 1980
Sisenna	genus	belongs to Archaeogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Sisenna	genus	belongs to Pleurotomariidae	stated with evidence	Wagner, 2017
Sisenna	genus	belongs to Gosseletinidae	stated with evidence	Nützel et al., 2018

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

265 - 260 Ma
Permian

Last Recorded Appearance

183 - 176 Ma
Early Jurassic

Motility

facultatively mobile (based on Murchisoniina)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Murchisoniina)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

E. Koken. 1896. Die Leitfossilien. Ein Handbuch für den Unterricht und für das Bestimmen von Versteinerungen

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Pleurotomaria (Sisenna) euspira ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	242 Ma Middle Triassic	242 Ma Middle Triassic
Pleurotomaria foveolata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pleurotomaria subturrita species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pleurotomaria venusta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sisenna apsara ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	265 Ma Permian	265 Ma Permian
Sisenna canalis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	190 Ma Early Jurassic	190 Ma Early Jurassic
Sisenna elegansa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Sisenna excelsiori ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Sisenna hanwangensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	216 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	216 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Sisenna inaequistriata ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Sisenna infirma ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	237 Ma Middle Triassic	237 Ma Middle Triassic
Sisenna jingguensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	237 Ma Middle Triassic	237 Ma Middle Triassic
Sisenna ninglangensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	232 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	222 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Sisenna novoguineana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	237 Ma Middle Triassic	237 Ma Middle Triassic
Sisenna pinguis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	197 Ma Early Jurassic	190 Ma Early Jurassic
Sisenna procera ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	197 Ma Early Jurassic	197 Ma Early Jurassic
Sisenna sandori ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	237 Ma Middle Triassic	237 Ma Middle Triassic
Sisenna subturrita ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		10	197 Ma Early Jurassic	190 Ma Early Jurassic
Sisenna turrita ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		19	197 Ma Early Jurassic	190 Ma Early Jurassic
Sisenna venusta ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		5	237 Ma Middle Triassic	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Sisenna xiangyunensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	237 Ma Middle Triassic	222 Ma Late/Upper Triassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1896	Sisenna Koken pp. p. 20-22 figs. figs. 22-28, 32-33
1918	Pleurotomaria (Sisenna) Trechmann
1960	Sisenna Knight et al. p. 202
1980	Sisenna Szabo p. 53
2002	Sisenna Sepkoski, Jr.
2017	Sisenna Wagner p. G1086
2018	Sisenna Nützel et al. p. 483

References

Koken E. , Die Leitfossilien. Ein Handbuch für den Unterricht und für das Bestimmen von Versteinerungen, 1-848

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

Szabo J. (1980) Lower and Middle Jurassic Gastropods from the Bakony Mountains (Hungary). Part II. Pleurotomariacea and Fissurellacea (Archaeograstropoda), Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 72, 49-71

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

Wagner P. J. (2017) Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database

Nützel A., Kaim A., et al (2018) Middle Triassic (Anisian, Bithynian) gastropods from North Dobrogea (Romania) and their significance for gastropod recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction event, Papers in Palaeontology 4, 477-512

GBIF/Paleo Database - 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

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

Jahrb. Geol. Reichsanst., 46 - 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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