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Sheldonella

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4593590	https://www.gbif.org/species/4593590
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	16310	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=16310

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Arcida : Noetiidae : Sheldonella

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Arcida : Arcidae : Sheldonella

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	Bivalvia	Linnaeus 1758
-	Eubivalvia	Carter 2011
subclass	Autobranchia
infraclass	Pteriomorphia
-	Ostreomorphi	Ferussac 1822
-	Arcioni	Gray 1854
order	Arcida
superfamily	Arcoidea
family	Arcidae	Lamarck 1809
subfamily	Noetiinae	Stewart 1930
genus	Sheldonella	Maury 1917

Scientific Name

Sheldonella Maury, 1917

Name Published In

Bull. Amer. Paleont., 5

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Sheldonella	genus	belongs to Noetiinae	stated with evidence	Vokes, 1980
Sheldonella	genus	belongs to Noetiidae	implied	Lamprell and Healy, 1998
Sheldonella	genus	belongs to Noetiidae	stated without evidence	Todd, 2001
Sheldonella	genus	belongs to Arcoida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 20.4 Ma
Miocene

Environment

lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwater (based on Arcidae)

Motility

facultatively mobile, attached

Vision

limited (based on Arcidae)

Diet

suspension feeder

Ontogeny

accretion (based on Arcidae)

Ecospace Comments

LIFE HISTORY: EP/WN, MA, BA, SU according to Todd (2001).

Taphonomy

aragonite,intermediate,minor folds, major ribbing (based on Arcidae)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Sheldonella bisulcata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Sheldonella delgada species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sheldonella lateralis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sheldonella maoica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Sheldonella minutalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sheldonella olssoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Didimarcar Iredale, 1939	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Arcida : Noetiidae : *Didimarcar*
Paranoetia Thiele, 1934	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Arcida : Noetiidae : *Paranoetia*
Barbatiella Jousseaume, 1917	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Arcida : Noetiidae : *Barbatiella*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1917	Sheldonella Maury
1980	Sheldonella Vokes p. 18
1998	Sheldonella Lamprell and Healy p. 62
2001	Sheldonella Todd
2002	Sheldonella Sepkoski, Jr.

References

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

Vokes H. E. (1980) Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue, Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue

Lamprell K., Healy J. (1998) , Bivalves of Australia 2

Todd J. A. (2001) Systematic list of bivalves in the Panama Paleontology Project collections, [http://eusmilia.geology.uiowa.edu/database/bivalves/systemat/bivaltax.htm#list]

CAAB - 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

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

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

Bull. Amer. Paleont., 5 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. - 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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