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Protatlanta rotundata ✝

Description

Protatlanta rotundata is an extinct species of sea snail, a holoplanktonic marine gastropod mollusk in the family Atlantidae.


From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protatlanta_rotundata, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.
Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)8745946https://www.gbif.org/species/8745946
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)346565https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=346565
Rankspecies
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Atlantidae : Protatlanta : Protatlanta rotundata
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Atlantidae : Protatlanta : Protatlanta rotundata
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-Bilateria
-EubilateriaAx 1987
-ProtostomiaGrobben 1908
-Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMolluscaLinnaeus 1758
classGastropodaCuvier 1797
superorderHypsogastropoda
infraorderLittorinimorphaGolikov and Starobogtov 1975
superfamilyPterotracheoideaRafinesque 1814
familyAtlantidaeWiegmann and Ruthe 1832
genusProtatlanta
speciesProtatlanta rotundataGabb 1873
Generic NameProtatlanta
Scientific NameProtatlanta rotundata (Gabb, 1873)
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Protatlanta rotundataspeciesbelongs to Atlantastated with evidenceGabb, 1873
Protatlanta rotundataspeciesbelongs to Protatlantastated with evidenceJanssen, 1999
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)1
First Recorded Appearance11.6 - 7.2 Ma
Miocene
Last Recorded Appearance3.60 - 2.59 Ma
Cenozoic
Motilityactively mobile (based on Atlantidae)
Visionlimited (based on Gastropoda)
Dietcarnivore (based on Atlantidae)
Taphonomyaragonite (based on Gastropoda)
Primary Reference (PBDB)A. W. Janssen. 1999. Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 20. Holoplanktonic Mollusks (Gastropoda: Heteropoda and Thecosomata). Bulletins of American Paleontology (358):1-40
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protatlanta_rotundata

Fossil Distribution

Obsolete Names

NameSourceTaxon RankTaxonomy
Atlanta rotundata Gabb, 1873GBIFspeciesAnimalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Atlantidae : Protatlanta : Atlanta rotundata
Protatlanta kakegawaensis Shibata, 1984GBIFspeciesAnimalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Atlantidae : Protatlanta : Protatlanta kakegawaensis
Chriskingia rotundata (Gabb, 1873)GBIFspeciesAnimalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Atlantidae : Protatlanta : Chriskingia rotundata

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1873Atlanta rotundata Gabb
1999Protatlanta rotundata Janssen

References

Janssen A. W. (1999) Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 20. Holoplanktonic Mollusks (Gastropoda: Heteropoda and Thecosomata), Bulletins of American Paleontology 358, 1-40
Janssen, A. W. (2004) Holoplanktonic molluscan assemblages (Gastropoda, Heteropoda, Thecosomata) from the Pliocene of: Estepona (Spain, Malaga). Palaeontos
Janssen, A. W. (2012). Early Pliocene heteropods and pteropods (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from Le Puget-sur-Argens (Var), France. Cainozoic Research 9 (2): 145-187. - via World Register of Marine Species
Janssen A.W. (2004) Holoplanktonic molluscan assemblages (Gastropoda, Heteropoda, Thecosomata) from the Pliocene of Estepona (Spain, Malaga). Palaeontos 5: 103-131. - via World Register of Marine Species
Wall-Palmer D., Burridge A.K., Peijnenburg K.T.C.A., Janssen A., Goetze E., Kirby R., Hart M.B. & Smart C.W. (2016). Evidence for the validity of Protatlanta sculpta (Gastropoda: Pterotracheoidea). Contributions to Zoology. 85(4): 423-435. - via World Register of Marine Species
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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