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Nisusia ✝

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Description

Kutoringates are early rhynchonelliform brachiopods.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4870667	https://www.gbif.org/species/4870667
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	26877	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=26877

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Brachiopoda : Kutorginata : Kutorginida : Nisusiidae : Nisusia

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
-	Lophophorata
phylum	Brachiopoda	Cuvier 1805
subphylum	Rhynchonelliformea	Williams et al. 1996
class	Kutorginata
order	Kutorginida	Kühn 1949
superfamily	Nisusioidea	Walcott and Schuchert 1908
family	Nisusiidae	Walcott and Schuchert 1908
genus	Nisusia	Walcott 1905

Scientific Name

Nisusia Walcott, 1905

Name Published In

Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 28, no. 1395

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Nisusia	genus	belongs to Nisusiidae	stated with evidence	Rowell and Caruso, 1985
Nisusia	genus	belongs to Orthida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

530 - 516 Ma
Cambrian

Last Recorded Appearance

501 - 485 Ma
Cambrian

Motility

stationary

Vision

blind (based on Kutorginata)

Diet

suspension feeder

Ecospace Comments

LIFE HISTOY: Epifaunal suspension feeder (Caron & Jackson, 2008). BODY SIZE: Data from Williams et al. (2000).

Taphonomy

minor folds, minor ribbing

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Nisusia alberta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nisusia amii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nisusia argenta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nisusia borealis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nisusia burgessensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nisusia cloudi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	513 Ma Cambrian	513 Ma Cambrian
Nisusia concentrica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nisusia deissi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	513 Ma Cambrian	513 Ma Cambrian
Nisusia erecta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nisusia festinata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nisusia howelli ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	513 Ma Cambrian	513 Ma Cambrian
Nisusia kanabensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nisusia lickensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nisusia lowi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nisusia mantouensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nisusia montanaensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	513 Ma Cambrian	513 Ma Cambrian
Nisusia oriens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nisusia orientalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nisusia salebrosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nisusia spinigera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nisusia utahensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1905	Nisusia Walcott
1985	Nisusia Rowell and Caruso p. 1240
2000	Nisusia Williams et al. p. 213
2002	Nisusia Sepkoski, Jr.

References

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

Rowell A. J., Caruso N. E. (1985) The evolutionary significance of Nisusia sulcata, an early articulate brachiopod, Journal of Paleontology 59 5, 1227-1242

Williams A., Carlson S. J., et al (2000) Part H Brachiopoda (revised): Volumes 2 & 3, Linguliformea, Craniiformea, Rhynchonelliformea (part)., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, 1-919

Hallan, J. (2000-current). Biology Catalog. Web compilation accessible at http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ (accessed June 2012). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 28, no. 1395 - 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

Walcott, 1905 - 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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