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Loxisonia ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4615012	https://www.gbif.org/species/4615012
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	8944	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=8944

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pleurotomariida : Murchisoniidae : Loxisonia

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Murchisoniina : Murchisoniidae : Loxisonia

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	Loxisonia	Batten 1985

Scientific Name

Loxisonia Batten, 1985

Name Published In

American Mus. Novit. No. 2829

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Loxisonia	genus	belongs to Murchisoniidae	stated with evidence	Batten, 1985
Loxisonia	genus	belongs to Gastropoda	stated with evidence	Frýda, 2000
Loxisonia	genus	belongs to Archaeogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Loxisonia	genus	belongs to Murchisoniidae	stated with evidence	Wagner, 2017

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

279 - 272 Ma
Permian

Last Recorded Appearance

279 - 272 Ma
Permian

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)

R. L. Batten. 1985. Gastropods and chitons from Perak, Malaysia. Part 3: the murchisoniids, cerithiids, loxonematids, and subulitids. American Museum Novitates 2829:1-40

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Loxisonia hormotoma ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Loxisonia zygopleuroides ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Loxosonia Batten, 1985	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pleurotomariida : Murchisoniidae : *Loxosonia*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1985	Loxisonia Batten p. 10
2000	Loxosonia Frýda p. 369
2002	Loxisonia Sepkoski, Jr.
2017	Loxosonia Wagner

References

Batten R. L. (1985) Gastropods and chitons from Perak, Malaysia. Part 3: the murchisoniids, cerithiids, loxonematids, and subulitids, American Museum Novitates 2829, 1-40

Frýda J. (2000) Some new Givetian (Late Middle Devonian) gastropods from the Paffrath area (Bergisches Land, Germany), Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 45 2, 359-374

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

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

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

American Mus. Novit. No. 2829 - 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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