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Pseudomelania ✝

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Pseudomelania sp.

Moinhos de Alburrica Beach, Barreiro e Lavradio, Barreiro, Setúbal, Portugal

Pseudomelania sp.

Barreiro e Lavradio, Barreiro, Setúbal, Portugal

Pseudomelania sp.

Moinhos de Alburrica Beach, Barreiro e Lavradio, Barreiro, Setúbal, Portugal

Pseudomelania sp.

Barreiro e Lavradio, Barreiro, Setúbal, Portugal

Pseudomelania sp.

Moinhos de Alburrica Beach, Barreiro e Lavradio, Barreiro, Setúbal, Portugal

Pseudomelania sp.

Barreiro e Lavradio, Barreiro, Setúbal, Portugal

Description

†Pseudomelania is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelaniidae.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4613791	https://www.gbif.org/species/4613791
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	10352	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=10352

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pseudomelaniidae : Pseudomelania

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Pseudomelaniidae : Pseudomelania

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	Prosobranchia	Milne-Edwards 1848
superorder	Caenogastropoda	Cox 1959
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Conoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Turridae	Swainson 1840
family	Pseudomelaniidae	Cossmann 1909
genus	Pseudomelania	Pictet

Scientific Name

Pseudomelania Pictet

Name Published In

in Pictet, Matér. Pal. Suisse, (3) no. 2

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Pseudomelania	genus	belongs to Pseudomelaniidae	stated with evidence	Kase, 1984
Pseudomelania	genus	belongs to Neotaenioglossa	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Pseudomelania	genus	belongs to Pseudomelaniidae	stated without evidence	Kaim, 2004
Pseudomelania	genus	belongs to Pseudomelaniidae	stated with evidence	Bouchet et al., 2005

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

272 - 269 Ma
Permian

Last Recorded Appearance

28.4 - 23.0 Ma
Cenozoic

Motility

actively mobile (based on Turridae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Turridae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

F. J. Pictet and G. Campiche. 1862. Déscription des fossiles du terrain crétacé des environs de Sainte-Croix. In F. J. Pictet (ed.), Matériaux pour la Paléontologie Suisse Série 2 3:1-752

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Pseudomelania (Oonia) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		53	237 Ma Middle Triassic	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Pseudomelania (Rhabdoconcha) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		15	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	164 Ma Middle Jurassic
Melania hagenovii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phasianella muensteri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Polyphemopsis gracilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudomelania actaeonidea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudomelania aonis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Pseudomelania basilicostata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudomelania bernouilensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudomelania bontei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudomelania bronnii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudomelania capduri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudomelania chartroni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudomelania colusaensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	89.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	89.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Pseudomelania corallina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudomelania ferrata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudomelania feruglioi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	190 Ma Early Jurassic	190 Ma Early Jurassic
Pseudomelania frankei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Pseudomelania frydai species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudomelania gaudryi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Pseudomelania gondwanea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudomelania goniobasis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudomelania goniophana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	237 Ma Middle Triassic	237 Ma Middle Triassic
Pseudomelania goodellii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudomelania gracilis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	265 Ma Permian	265 Ma Permian
Pseudomelania gresslyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudomelania gubleri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudomelania hagenowi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Pseudomelania laubei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudomelania miles ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Pseudomelania miliacea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudomelania monmouthensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudomelania muensteri ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		7	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Pseudomelania obesa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudomelania orbignyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudomelania punctata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudomelania roanokana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudomelania runnelsi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudomelania subsimilis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	242 Ma Middle Triassic	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Pseudomelania subterebra ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	237 Ma Middle Triassic	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Pseudomelania subula ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Pseudomelania urgonensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Striatoonia Fischer, Le Nindre, Manivit & Vaslet, 2001	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pseudomelaniidae : *Striatoonia*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1862	Pseudomelania Pictet and Campiche
1984	Pseudomelania Kase p. 107
2002	Pseudomelania Sepkoski, Jr.
2004	Pseudomelania Kaim p. 97
2005	Pseudomelania Bouchet et al. p. 144

References

Pictet F. J., Campiche G. Déscription des fossiles du terrain crétacé des environs de Sainte-Croix, Matériaux pour la Paléontologie Suisse Série 2 3, 1-752

Kase T. (1984) , Early Cretaceous marine and brackish-water Gastropoda from Japan, 1-262

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

Kaim A. (2004) The evolution of conch ontogeny in Mesozoic open sea gastropods, Palaeontologia Polonica 62, 183pp.

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

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

Nomenclator Zoologicus (authority adjusted) - 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

in Pictet, Matér. Pal. Suisse, (3) no. 2 - 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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