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Sinuopeidae ✝

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Description

Sinuopeidae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, Paleozoic gastropod mollusks.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4615013	https://www.gbif.org/species/4615013
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	58512	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=58512

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Sinuopeidae

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	Eogastropoda	Ponder and Lindberg 1996
family	Sinuopeidae	Wenz 1938

Scientific Name

Sinuopeidae

Name Published In

Wenz W. (1938-1944). Gastropoda. Teil 1: Allgemeiner Teil und Prosobranchia. xii + 1639 pp. In: Schindewolf, O.H. (Ed.) Handbuch der Paläozoologie, Band 6. Bornträger, Berlin. Lief. 1, 1-240 [March 1938]; 3, 241-480 [October 1938]; 4, 481-720 [July 1939]; 6, 721-960 [August 1940]; 7, 961-1200 [October 1941]; 8, 1201-1506 [October 1943]; 9, 1507-1639, i-xii [November 1944].

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Sinuopeidae	family	belongs to Pleurotomarioidea	stated with evidence	Knight et al., 1960
Sinuopeidae	family	belongs to Raphistomatoidea	stated without evidence	Golikov and Starobogatov, 1975
Sinuopeidae	family	belongs to Archaeogastropoda	stated with evidence	Wagner, 1999
Sinuopeidae	family	belongs to Pleurotomariacea	stated without evidence	, 2002
Sinuopeidae	family	belongs to Eogastropoda	stated with evidence	Jeffery, 2003
Sinuopeidae	family	belongs to Gastropoda	stated without evidence	Bouchet et al., 2005

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

501 - 485 Ma
Cambrian

Last Recorded Appearance

254 - 252 Ma
Permian

Motility

actively mobile (based on Gastropoda)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Ecospace Comments

BODY SIZE: Based on component genera; 4 of 4 genera share 10 to < 100 length, 4 of 4 share 10 to < 100 width.

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

W. Wenz. 1938. Handbuch der Paläozoologie; Gastropoda. Handbuch der Paläozoologie

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Platyschismatinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		8	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	419 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Sinuopeinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		41	501 Ma Cambrian	388 Ma Middle Devonian
Colpites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		20	336 Ma Carboniferous	272 Ma Permian
Euconia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		47	501 Ma Cambrian	478 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician
Gasconadia ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		20	501 Ma Cambrian	485 Ma Cambrian
Horiostomella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	468 Ma Middle Ordovician	427 Ma Silurian
Naticasinus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Platyschisma ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		24	423 Ma Silurian	260 Ma Permian
Pycnotrochus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		9	443 Ma Silurian	423 Ma Silurian
Schizopea ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		41	501 Ma Cambrian	479 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician
Sinuopea ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		36	501 Ma Cambrian	485 Ma Cambrian
Taeniospira genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Umbospira ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	419 Ma Early/Lower Devonian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1938	Sinuopeidae Wenz
1960	Sinuopeidae Knight et al. p. 198
1975	Sinuopeidae Golikov and Starobogatov p. 208
1999	Sinuopeidae Wagner p. 69
2003	Sinuopeidae Jeffery
2005	Sinuopeidae Bouchet et al. p. 242

Year	Name and Author
1938	Sinuopeidae Wenz
1960	Sinuopeidae Knight et al. p. 198
1975	Sinuopeidae Golikov and Starobogatov p. 208
1999	Sinuopeidae Wagner p. 69
2003	Sinuopeidae Jeffery
2005	Sinuopeidae Bouchet et al. p. 242

References

Wenz W. (1938) Handbuch der Paläozoologie; Gastropoda, Handbuch der Paläozoologie

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

Golikov A. N., Starobogatov Y. I. (1975) Systematics of prosobranch gastropods, Malacologia 15 2, 185-232

Wagner P. J. (1999) Phylogenetics of the earliest anisostrophically coiled gastropods, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 88, 1-132

Jeffery P. (2003) GastroClass: Gastropod Classification Website

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

Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526. - via World Register of Marine Species

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47(1-2): 1-397. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) - 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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