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Latitaenia ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4616650	https://www.gbif.org/species/4616650
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	8910	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=8910

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pleurotomariida : Gosseletinidae : Latitaenia

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Murchisoniina : Gosseletinidae : Latitaenia

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	Eotomarioidea	Wenz 1938
family	Gosseletinidae	Wenz 1938
subfamily	Coelozoninae	Knight 1956
tribe	Coelozonides	Knight 1956
genus	Latitaenia	Koken & Perner 1925

Scientific Name

Latitaenia Koken & Perner, 1925

Name Published In

Mém. Acad. Sci. Russie, (8) 37, no. 1

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Latitaenia	genus	belongs to Coelozonides	stated with evidence	Knight et al., 1960
Latitaenia	genus	belongs to Archaeogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

458 - 452 Ma
Late/Upper Ordovician

Last Recorded Appearance

450 - 446 Ma
Late/Upper Ordovician

Motility

facultatively mobile (based on Murchisoniina)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Murchisoniina)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

E. Koken and J. Perner. 1925. Die Gastropoden des baltischen Untersilurs

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Latitaenia aequicrescens ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	452 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Latitaenia kirnaensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	452 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	452 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Latitaenia rotelloides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pleurotomaria rotelloidea ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Pleurotomaria thulensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1925	Latitaenia Koken and Perner
1960	Latitaenia Knight et al. p. 211
2002	Latitaenia Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Koken E., Perner J. (1925) , Die Gastropoden des baltischen Untersilurs, 1-324

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

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

Mém. Acad. Sci. Russie, (8) 37, no. 1 - 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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