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Liotiidae

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Description

Liotiidae is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3245136	https://www.gbif.org/species/3245136
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	60899	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=60899

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Trochida : Liotiidae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Liotiidae

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
superorder	Vetigastropoda	Salvini-Plawen 1980
superfamily	Trochoidea
family	Liotiidae	Gray 1850

Scientific Name

Liotiidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Liotiidae	family	belongs to Trochacea	stated with evidence	Ward and Blackwelder, 1987
Liotiidae	family	belongs to Archaeogastropoda	stated without evidence	Squires, 1988
Liotiidae	family	belongs to Liotiinae	stated without evidence	, 2002
Liotiidae	family	belongs to Trochoidea	stated with evidence	Bouchet et al., 2005

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

16 (23%)

First Recorded Appearance

290 - 279 Ma
Permian

Motility

actively mobile (based on Trochoidea)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

grazer (based on Trochoidea)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

M. A. Kosnik. 2002. personal opinion.

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Brochidiinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		25	279 Ma Permian	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Dichostasiinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		13	290 Ma Permian	265 Ma Permian
Liotiinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		71	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Ataphropsis ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Austroliotia genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Bathyliotina genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brochidiella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	212 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Brochidium ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		25	279 Ma Permian	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Circumstella genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	0.01 Ma Pleistocene	0.01 Ma Pleistocene
Cithna ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Cordarene genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Costatomphalus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Cyclostrema genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		15	61.6 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Dentarene genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Dichostasia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		13	290 Ma Permian	265 Ma Permian
Globarene genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Liotia genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		38	156 Ma Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Liotia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Liotina genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		14	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Liotinaria genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lodderena genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	21.7 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Macrarene genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Mcleaniella genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Molleria genus	listed (PBDB)		1	3.60 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Moniliotina genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Munditia genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	33.9 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Pareuchelus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	11.6 Ma Miocene
Pseudoliotina genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudoliotina ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Pterarene genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Rhodinoliotia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Rufanula genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Woehrmannia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		10	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Sansonia corayi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Brookulidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Trochida : Brookulidae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1850	Liotiidae Gray
1885	Cyclostrematidae Fischer
1904	Cyclostrematidae Martin p. 265
1987	Liotiidae Ward and Blackwelder p. 131
1988	Liotiidae Squires p. 8
2005	Liotiidae Bouchet et al. p. 245

References

Kosnik M. A. (2002) personal opinion.

Martin G. C. (1904) Gastropoda, Maryland Geological Survey Miocene Text, 131-269

Ward L. W., Blackwelder B.W. (1987) Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at Lee Creek Mine, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 61, 113-283

Squires R. L. (1988) Eocene Macropaleontology of Northern Lockwood Valley, Ventura County, California, Contributions in Science (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) 398, 1-23

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

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

Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

web search (AJR) - 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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