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Orbiculoidea ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	9200503	https://www.gbif.org/species/9200503
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	26527	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=26527

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Brachiopoda : Lingulata : Lingulida : Discinidae : Orbiculoidea

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Brachiopoda : Lingulata : Lingulida : Disciniidae : Orbiculoidea

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	Linguliformea	Williams et al. 1996
class	Lingulata	Gorjansky and Popov 1985
order	Lingulida	Waagen 1885
superfamily	Discinoidea	(Gray 1840)
family	Disciniidae	(Gray 1840)
genus	Orbiculoidea	d'Orbigny 1847

Scientific Name

Orbiculoidea d'Orbigny, 1847

Name Published In

C.R. Acad. Sci., Paris, 25: 269

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Orbiculoidea	subgenus	belongs to Discina	stated without evidence	Troedsson, 1918
Orbiculoidea	genus	belongs to Brachiopoda	implied	Jillson, 1919
Orbiculoidea	genus	belongs to Disciniidae	stated without evidence	Hoare, 1961
Orbiculoidea	genus	belongs to Orbiculoideinae	stated without evidence	Wright, 1963
Orbiculoidea	genus	belongs to Orbiculoideinae	stated with evidence	Owen and Harper, 1982
Orbiculoidea	genus	belongs to Disciniidae	stated with evidence	Williams et al., 2000
Orbiculoidea	genus	belongs to Acrotretida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

479 - 468 Ma
Ordovician

Last Recorded Appearance

145 - 140 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Motility

stationary, attached (based on Lingulida)

Vision

blind (based on Lingulata)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Lingulida)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Lingulida)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

A. d'Orbigny. 1852. Cours Élémentaire de Paléontologie et de Géologie Stratigraphiques [Elementary Course in Paleontology and Stratigraphic Geology] 2(1):1-382

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Orbiculoidea aberrans species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orbiculoidea anhuiensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	269 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Orbiculoidea armstrongi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Orbiculoidea babeana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orbiculoidea batesvillensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Orbiculoidea bondoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orbiculoidea capax ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Orbiculoidea capuliformis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		9	318 Ma Carboniferous	314 Ma Carboniferous
Orbiculoidea clarki species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orbiculoidea clintonensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Orbiculoidea concentrica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	445 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Orbiculoidea damanensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian
Orbiculoidea elegans ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		10	254 Ma Permian	252 Ma Permian
Orbiculoidea excentrica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	388 Ma Middle Devonian	272 Ma Permian
Orbiculoidea eximia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orbiculoidea falklandensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orbiculoidea forbesa ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	439 Ma Silurian	439 Ma Silurian
Orbiculoidea forbesi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orbiculoidea gibba ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	453 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Orbiculoidea grandissima species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orbiculoidea herzeri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orbiculoidea interlineata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	331 Ma Carboniferous	331 Ma Carboniferous
Orbiculoidea jangarensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		12	279 Ma Permian	269 Ma Permian
Orbiculoidea keokuk ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	345 Ma Carboniferous	345 Ma Carboniferous
Orbiculoidea kolymaensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	299 Ma Carboniferous	265 Ma Permian
Orbiculoidea konincki ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		10	272 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Orbiculoidea kullsbergensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	461 Ma Middle Ordovician
Orbiculoidea liaoi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	260 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Orbiculoidea linguliformis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Orbiculoidea linvillensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orbiculoidea magna ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Orbiculoidea minuta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Orbiculoidea missouriensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		71	318 Ma Carboniferous	260 Ma Permian
Orbiculoidea nucleola ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		13	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Orbiculoidea ovalis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	265 Ma Permian	265 Ma Permian
Orbiculoidea pikensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orbiculoidea pileolus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	172 Ma Middle Jurassic	172 Ma Middle Jurassic
Orbiculoidea plana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orbiculoidea platymitraformis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	265 Ma Permian	265 Ma Permian
Orbiculoidea prietana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	323 Ma Carboniferous	323 Ma Carboniferous
Orbiculoidea qieermaensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Orbiculoidea qinglongensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	260 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Orbiculoidea radiata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	445 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	445 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Orbiculoidea roederi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orbiculoidea rotularia ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	290 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Orbiculoidea rudis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orbiculoidea sampsoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Orbiculoidea schucherti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orbiculoidea semipolita ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	190 Ma Early Jurassic	190 Ma Early Jurassic
Orbiculoidea shallochensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Orbiculoidea sibirica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		9	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Orbiculoidea soyanensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Orbiculoidea speluncaria species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orbiculoidea spitsbergensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	252 Ma Permian	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Orbiculoidea stincharensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	456 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Orbiculoidea subradiata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orbiculoidea taskrestensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Orbiculoidea tobaensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Orbiculoidea utahensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		15	290 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Orbiculoidea varsoviensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian
Orbiculoidea warthi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	296 Ma Permian	296 Ma Permian
Orbiculoidea winsnesi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	252 Ma Permian	252 Ma Permian
Orbiculoidea wisnesi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Orbiculoidea wyomingensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	339 Ma Carboniferous	331 Ma Carboniferous
Orbiculoidea yangkangensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	254 Ma Permian	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Orbiculoidea youngi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Orbiculoides (d'Orbigny, 1847)	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Brachiopoda : Lingulata : Lingulida : Discinidae : *Orbiculoides*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1847	Orbiculoidea d'Orbigny
1918	Discina (Orbiculoidea) Troedsson p. 35
1919	Orbiculoides Jillson p. 101
1961	Orbiculoidea Hoare p. 22
1963	Orbiculoidea Wright
1977	Orbiculoidea Mitchell

Year	Name and Author
1982	Orbiculoidea Owen and Harper
1987	Orbiculoidea Holmer
1989	Orbiculoidea Holmer
2000	Orbiculoidea Williams et al. p. 90
2002	Orbiculoidea Sepkoski, Jr.

References

d'Orbigny A. , Cours Élémentaire de Paléontologie et de Géologie Stratigraphiques [Elementary Course in Paleontology and Stratigraphic Geology] 2 1, 1-382

Troedsson G. T. (1918) Om Skanes brachiopodskiffer, Lunds Universitets Årsskrift, Neue Folge 15 3, 1-104

Jillson W. R. (1919) The Kendrick Shale - A New Calcareous Fossil Horizon in the Coal Measures of Eastern Kentucky, Kentucky Department of Geology & Forestry, series V (of the Kentucky Geological Survey), Mineral & Forest Resources of Kentucky 1 2, 95-104

Hoare R. D. (1961) Desmoinesian Brachiopoda and Mollusca from southwest Missouri, Missouri University Studies 36, 1-262

Wright A. D. (1963) The fauna of the Portrane Limestone 1. The inarticulate brachiopods, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology 8 5, 224-254

Mitchell W. I. (1977) The Ordovician Brachiopoda from Pomeroy, Co. Tyrone, The Palaeontographical Society Monographs 130 545, 1-138

Owen A. W., Harper D. A. T. (1982) The Middle Ordovician of the Oslo Region, Norway, 31. The upper Caradoc trilobites and brachiopods from Vestbraten, Ringerike, Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 62, 95-120

Holmer L. E. (1987) Discinacean brachiopods from the Ordovician Kullsberg an Boda limestones of Dalarna, Sweden, Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar 109 4, 317-326

Holmer L. E. (1989) Middle Ordovician phosphatic inarticulate brachiopods from Västergötland and Dalarna, Sweden, Fossils and Strata 26, 1-172

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

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

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

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

SN2000 unverified - 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

C. R. Acad. Sci. (Paris), 25 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 722 Orbiculoidea d'Orbigny, 1847 (Brachiopoda): designation of a type-species under the Plenary Powers.Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 22, 30-31 (1965) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology

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