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Brilonella ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4606043	https://www.gbif.org/species/4606043
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	8618	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=8618

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pleurotomariida : Murchisoniidae : Brilonella

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Murchisoniina : Murchisoniidae : Brilonella

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	Murchisonioidea
family	Murchisoniidae	Koken 1896
genus	Brilonella	Kayser 1873

Scientific Name

Brilonella Kayser, 1873

Name Published In

Z. Dtsch. Geol. Ges., 25

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Brilonella	genus	belongs to Murchisoniidae	stated with evidence	Knight et al., 1960
Brilonella	genus	belongs to Archaeogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Brilonella	genus	belongs to Scoliostomatinae	stated without evidence	Frýda et al., 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

388 - 384 Ma
Middle Devonian

Last Recorded Appearance

388 - 384 Ma
Middle Devonian

Motility

facultatively mobile (based on Murchisoniidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Murchisoniidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

F.H.E. Kayser. 1873. Studien aus dem Gebiete des rheinischen Devon. IV. Ueber die Fauna des Nierenkalkes vom Enkeberge und der Schiefern von Nehden bei Brilon, und über die Gliederung des Oberdevon im Rheinischen Schiefergebirge. Zeitschrift der Deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft 25:602-674

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Scoliostoma serpens ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	388 Ma Middle Devonian	388 Ma Middle Devonian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1873	Brilonella Kayser p. 672
1960	Brilonella Knight et al. p. 293
2002	Brilonella Frýda et al. p. 249
2002	Brilonella Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Kayser F.H.E. Studien aus dem Gebiete des rheinischen Devon. IV. Ueber die Fauna des Nierenkalkes vom Enkeberge und der Schiefern von Nehden bei Brilon, und über die Gliederung des Oberdevon im Rheinischen Schiefergebirge, Zeitschrift der Deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft 25, 602-674

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

Frýda J., Blodgett R. B., et al (2002) New Early Devonian gastropods from the families Scoliostomatidae (new family) and Crassimarginatidae (new family), Royal Creek Area, Yukon Territory, Canada, Journal of Paleontology 76 2, 246-255

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

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

Z. Dtsch. Geol. Ges., 25 - 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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