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Description

Pelagiellidae is an extinct family of Paleozoic fossil marine molluscs.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4583929	https://www.gbif.org/species/4583929
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	7874	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=7874

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Pelagiellidae : Pelagiella

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Helcionelloida : Pelagiellida : Pelagiellidae : Pelagiella

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	Helcionelloida	Peel 1991
order	Pelagiellida
superfamily	Pelagielloidea
family	Pelagiellidae	Knight 1952
genus	Pelagiella	Matthew 1895

Scientific Name

Pelagiella Matthew, 1895

Name Published In

Trans. N. York Acad. Sci., 14

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Pelagiella	genus	belongs to Pelagiellidae	stated without evidence	Knight, 1952
Pelagiella	genus	belongs to Pelagiellidae	stated with evidence	Knight et al., 1960
Pelagiella	genus	belongs to Pelagiellidae	stated without evidence	Missarzhevsky, 1989
Pelagiella	genus	belongs to Cyrtonellida	stated without evidence	Bengtson, 1992
Pelagiella	genus	belongs to Pelagiellidae	stated with evidence	Brock and Cooper, 1993
Pelagiella	genus	belongs to Pelagiellida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Pelagiella	genus	belongs to Pelagiellidae	stated without evidence	Landing et al., 2002
Pelagiella	genus	belongs to Helcionellidae	stated with evidence	Gubanov et al., 2004
Pelagiella	genus	belongs to Pelagiellidae	stated without evidence	Parkhaev, 2004
Pelagiella	genus	belongs to Pelagiellidae	stated with evidence	Bouchet et al., 2005
Pelagiella	genus	belongs to Helcionellidae	stated with evidence	Wotte, 2006
Pelagiella	genus	belongs to Pelagiellidae	stated with evidence	Kouchinsky et al., 2011

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

541 - 530 Ma
Cambrian

Last Recorded Appearance

501 - 485 Ma
Cambrian

Motility

actively mobile

Vision

blind (based on Helcionelloida)

Diet

grazer

Ecospace Comments

DIMENSIONS & MORPHOLOGY: Based on Pelagiella adunca. LIFE HISTORY: Surficial, fully motile slow, grazing according to Bambach et al (2007).

Taphonomy

thin

Primary Reference (PBDB)

G. F. Matthew. 1895. The Protolenus fauna. Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences 14:101-153

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Auriculaspira madianensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Auriculatespira adunca species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyrtolites atlantoides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophileta subangulata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pelagiella adunca ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		34	520 Ma Cambrian	516 Ma Cambrian
Pelagiella asymmetrica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Pelagiella atlantoides ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Pelagiella atlasensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	513 Ma Cambrian	513 Ma Cambrian
Pelagiella bentica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Pelagiella blainensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pelagiella bridgei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pelagiella corinthiana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	507 Ma Cambrian	507 Ma Cambrian
Pelagiella crassa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	516 Ma Cambrian	516 Ma Cambrian
Pelagiella deltoides ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	507 Ma Cambrian	507 Ma Cambrian
Pelagiella escayachensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Pelagiella exigua species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pelagiella hinomotoensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pelagiella lorenzi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	530 Ma Cambrian	513 Ma Cambrian
Pelagiella madianensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		29	520 Ma Cambrian	516 Ma Cambrian
Pelagiella pagoda species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pelagiella primaeva ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		12	530 Ma Cambrian	516 Ma Cambrian
Pelagiella reversa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pelagiella semispira species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pelagiella serpentis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Pelagiella subangulata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		77	530 Ma Cambrian	516 Ma Cambrian
Platyceras primaevum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Protoscaevogyra reversa ✝ species	listed (PBDB)

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Parapelagiella (Kobayashi, 1939)	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Pelagiellidae : *Parapelagiella*
Auriculatespira Zhou & Xiao, 1984	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Pelagiellidae : *Auriculatespira*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1895	Pelagiella Matthew
1939	Protoscaevogyra Kobayashi
1939	Pelagiella (Parapelagiella) Kobayashi p. 287
1952	Pelagiella Knight
1960	Pelagiella Knight et al. p. 323
1962	Protoscaevogyra Kobayashi p. 17
1976	Pelagiella Runnegar and Jell p. 133
1976	Protoscaevogyra Runnegar and Jell p. 134
1984	Pelagiella Linsley and Kier
1984	Protoscaevogyra Linsley and Kier
1985	Auriculaspira Pei p. 395
1989	Pelagiella Missarzhevsky p. 182
1992	Auriculaspira Bengtson p. 1026
1992	Pelagiella Bengtson p. 1027

Year	Name and Author
1993	Pelagiella Brock and Cooper p. 778
2001	Pelagiella Parkhaev p. 191
2002	Pelagiella Landing et al. p. 299
2002	Pelagiella Parkhaev p. 37
2002	Pelagiella Sepkoski, Jr.
2002	Protoscaevogyra Sepkoski, Jr.
2004	Pelagiella Gubanov et al.
2004	Pelagiella Parkhaev p. 603
2005	Pelagiella Bouchet et al. p. 128
2005	Protoscaevogyra Bouchet et al. pp. 142, 241
2006	Pelagiella Wotte p. 151
2011	Pelagiella Kouchinsky et al. p. 135
2020	Pelagiella Wagner p. G

References

Matthew G. F. The Protolenus fauna, Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences 14, 101-153

Kobayashi T. (1939) Restudy of Lorenz's Raphistoma bröggeri from Shantung with a note on Pelagiella, Jubilee publication in commemoration of Professor H. Yabe's 60th birthday, 283-288

Knight J. B. (1952) Primitive fossil gastropods and their bearing on gastropod classification 117 13, 1-56

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

Runnegar B., Jell P.A. (1976) Australian Middle Cambrian molluscs and their bearing on early molluscan evolution, Alcheringa 1 1/2, 109-132

Linsley R. M., Kier W.M. (1984) The Paragastropoda: a proposal for a new class of Paleozoic Mollusca, Malacologia 25 1, 241-254

Pei F. (1985) First discovery of Yochelcionella from the Lower Cambrian of China and its significance, Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica 2 4, 395-400

Missarzhevsky V. V. (1989) Oldest skeletal fossils of late Precambrian and early Cambrian age: a review of recent work, Trudy Geologicheskogo Instituta AN SSSR 443, 1-231

Bengtson S. (1992) Proterozoic and earliest Cambrian skeletal metazoans, The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study, 1017-1034

Brock G. A., Cooper B.J. (1993) Shelly fossils from the Early Cambrian (Toyonian) Wirrealpa, Arrona Creek, and Ramsay Limestones of South Australia, Journal of Paleontology 67 5, 758-787

Parkhaev P. Yu. (2001) Molluscs and siphonoconchs, The Cambrian biostratigraphy of the Stansbury Basin, South Australia 282, 133-210

Landing E., Geyer G., et al (2002) Latest Early Cambrian small shelly fossils, trilobites and Hatch Hill dysaerobic interval on the Québec contental slope, Journal of Paleontology 76 2, 287-305

Parkhaev P. Yu. (2002) Phylogenesis and the systematics of the Cambrian univalved mollusks, Paleontological Journal 35 1, 27-39

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

Gubanov A. P., Fernández-Remolar D.C., et al (2004) Early Cambrian molluscs from Sierra de Córdoba (Spain), Géobios 37 2, 199-215

Parkhaev P. Yu. (2004) Malacofauna of the Lower Cambrian Bystraya Formation of Eastern Transbaikalia, Paleontological Journal 38 6, 590-608

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

Wotte T. (2006) New Middle Cambrian mollucs from the Láncara Formation of the Cantabrian Mountains (north-western Spain), Revista Española de Paleontología 21 2, 145-158

Kouchinsky A., Bengtson S., et al (2011) A middle Cambrian fauna of skeletal fossils from the Kuonamka Formation, northern Siberia, Alcheringa 35 1, 123-189

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

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

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Trans. N. York Acad. Sci., 14 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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