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Leptomaria

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4616048	https://www.gbif.org/species/4616048
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	8916	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=8916

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pleurotomariida : Pleurotomariidae : Leptomaria

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pleurotomariida : Pleurotomariidae : Leptomaria

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
superorder	Vetigastropoda	Salvini-Plawen 1980
order	Pleurotomariida	Cox and Knight 1960
superfamily	Pleurotomarioidea
family	Pleurotomariidae	Swainson 1840
genus	Leptomaria	Eudes-Deslongchamps 1865

Scientific Name

Leptomaria Eudes-Deslongchamps, 1865

Name Published In

Deslongchamps E. (1865). Note sur la délimitation des genres Trochotoma et Ditremaria. Bulletin de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie. 9: 421-433, pl. 3.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Leptomaria	subgenus	belongs to Pleurotomaria	stated with evidence	Perkins, 1960
Leptomaria	genus	belongs to Pleurotomariidae	stated with evidence	Szabo, 1980
Leptomaria	genus	belongs to Archaeogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Leptomaria	genus	belongs to Pleurotomariidae	stated with evidence	Ferrari, 2014

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (18%)

First Recorded Appearance

247 - 222 Ma
Triassic

Motility

actively mobile (based on Pleurotomariidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Pleurotomariidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Leptomaria asurai species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Leptomaria daityai species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	165 Ma Middle Jurassic	164 Ma Middle Jurassic
Leptomaria fasciata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	180 Ma Early Jurassic
Leptomaria magneti ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Leptomaria meyeri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Leptomaria niloticiformis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Leptomaria penultima species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Leptomaria peresii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Leptomaria pricei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Leptomaria punctata species	listed (PBDB)		3	176 Ma Early Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Leptomaria somhegyensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	172 Ma Middle Jurassic	172 Ma Middle Jurassic
Leptomaria sublevis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Leptomaria takahashii species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	164 Ma Middle Jurassic	164 Ma Middle Jurassic
Leptomaria tardita ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	172 Ma Middle Jurassic	172 Ma Middle Jurassic
Pleurotomaria (Leptomaria) austinensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Pleurotomaria austinensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Trochus fasciatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1864	Leptomaria Eudes-Deslongchamps
1960	Pleurotomaria (Leptomaria) Perkins p. 86
1980	Leptomaria Szabo p. 59
1989	Leptomaria Conti and Szabó p. 32
2002	Leptomaria Sepkoski, Jr.
2014	Leptomaria Ferrari p. 571

References

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

Perkins B. F. (1960) Biostratigraphic studies in the Comanche (Cretaceous) Series of northern Mexico and Texas, Geological Society of America Memoirs 83, 1-167 doi:10.1130/MEM83-p1

Szabo J. (1980) Lower and Middle Jurassic Gastropods from the Bakony Mountains (Hungary). Part II. Pleurotomariacea and Fissurellacea (Archaeograstropoda), Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 72, 49-71

Conti M. A., Szabó J. (1989) A revision of the Jurassic gastropod fauna from Cape San Vigilio (S-Alps, Italy), published by M. Vacek (1886), Fragmenta Mineralogica er Palaeontologica 14, 29-40

Ferrari S. M. (2014) Patellogastropoda and Vetigastropoda (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the marine Jurassic of Patagonia, Argentina, Historical Biology 26, 563-581

Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) - 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

Deslongchamps E. (1865). Note sur la délimitation des genres Trochotoma et Ditremaria. Bulletin de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie. 9: 421-433, pl. 3. - via World Register of Marine Species

Notes Pal., 1, no. 6 - 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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