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Description

Wilkingia is an extinct genus of fossil bivalve molluscs that lived from the Early Carboniferous (Visean) to the Late Permian (Changhsingian) in Asia, Europe, North and South America (Río del Peñón Formation of Argentina, Piauí Formation of Brazil and Cerro El Arbol Formation of Chile).

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4594976	https://www.gbif.org/species/4594976
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	18845	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=18845

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Sanguinolitidae : Wilkingia

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	Heteroconchia
-	Cardiomorphi	Ferussac 1822
-	Cardioni	Ferussac 1822
-	Cardiidia	Ferussac 1822
superfamily	Grammysioidea	Miller 1877
family	Sanguinolitidae	Miller 1877
subfamily	Undulomyinae	Astafieva-Urbajtis 1973
genus	Wilkingia	Wilson 1959

Scientific Name

Wilkingia Wilson, 1959

Name Published In

Palaeontology 1

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Wilkingia	genus	belongs to Pholadomyidae	stated with evidence	Vokes, 1980
Wilkingia	genus	belongs to Undulomyinae	stated with evidence	Morris et al., 1991
Wilkingia	genus	belongs to Pholadomyoida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

345 - 336 Ma
Carboniferous

Last Recorded Appearance

254 - 252 Ma
Permian

Motility

facultatively mobile (based on Bivalvia)

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Bivalvia)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Bivalvia)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Allerisma neglectum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Allerisma terminalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Allorisma andrewsi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Allorisma inflata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Allorisma maxvillensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Allorisma mediterranea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Allorisma perelegans species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Allorisma pleuromyoides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Allorisma rothi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Allorisma sericea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Allorisma walkeri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Allorisma wyomingensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Amphidesma lunulata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Osteodesma kutorgana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sanguinolites bulkurensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sanguinolites verchojanicus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Wilkingia abramovi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Wilkingia andrewsi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		5	339 Ma Carboniferous	331 Ma Carboniferous
Wilkingia androsovi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Wilkingia bulkurensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		7	279 Ma Permian	265 Ma Permian
Wilkingia fengchengensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	260 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Wilkingia hainanensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	269 Ma Permian	269 Ma Permian
Wilkingia hubeiensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Wilkingia inflata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	339 Ma Carboniferous	331 Ma Carboniferous
Wilkingia kutorgana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		5	279 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Wilkingia lunulata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Wilkingia maxvillensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	339 Ma Carboniferous	339 Ma Carboniferous
Wilkingia mediterranea ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	269 Ma Permian	269 Ma Permian
Wilkingia neglecta ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	331 Ma Carboniferous	331 Ma Carboniferous
Wilkingia perelegans ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		7	260 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Wilkingia pleuromyoides ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		4	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Wilkingia rothi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		11	279 Ma Permian	265 Ma Permian
Wilkingia sericea ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	269 Ma Permian	269 Ma Permian
Wilkingia terminale ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		63	315 Ma Carboniferous	272 Ma Permian
Wilkingia terminalis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		11	339 Ma Carboniferous	318 Ma Carboniferous
Wilkingia triangularis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	265 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Wilkingia verchojanica ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		4	296 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Wilkingia walkeri ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		6	345 Ma Carboniferous	331 Ma Carboniferous
Wilkingia wyomingensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Wilkingia guizhouensis Xu, 1980	GBIF	species	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Sanguinolitidae : *Wilkingia guizhouensis*
Wilkingia anshunensis Xu, 1980	GBIF	species	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Sanguinolitidae : *Wilkingia anshunensis*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1959	Wilkingia Wilson
1980	Wilkingia Vokes p. 205
1980	Wilkingia guizhouensis Xu p. 6
1980	Wilkingia anshunensis Xu p. 7
1991	Wilkingia Morris et al. p. 94
2002	Wilkingia 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

Morris N. J., Dickins J. M., et al (1991) Upper Palaeozoic Anomalodesmatan Bivalvia, Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology) 47 1, 51-100

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 unverified - 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

Palaeontology 1 - 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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