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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	112242	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=112242

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Ranellidae : Sassia

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
superorder	Hypsogastropoda
infraorder	Littorinimorpha	Golikov and Starobogtov 1975
superfamily	Tonnoidea	(Suter 1913)
family	Ranellidae	Gray 1854
subfamily	Cymatiinae	Iredale 1913
genus	Sassia	(Bellardi 1872)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Sassia	subgenus	belongs to Triton	stated with evidence	Sacco, 1904
Sassia	genus	belongs to Cymatiidae	stated without evidence	Turner, 1938
Sassia	subgenus	belongs to Charonia	stated with evidence	Kojumdgieva and Strachimirov, 1960
Sassia	genus	belongs to Ranellinae	stated without evidence	Beu, 1978
Sassia	genus	belongs to Cymatiinae	stated without evidence	Squires, 1987
Sassia	genus	belongs to Cymatiidae	stated without evidence	Dockery, 1993
Sassia	genus	belongs to Cymatiinae	implied	Wilson, 1993
Sassia	genus	belongs to Cymatiidae	stated with evidence	Harzhauser, 2002
Sassia	genus	belongs to Neotaenioglossa	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Sassia	genus	belongs to Cymatiinae	stated with evidence	Harzhauser, 2004
Sassia	genus	belongs to Ranellidae	stated without evidence	Nielson and Valdovinos, 2008

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

6 (15%)

First Recorded Appearance

83.5 - 70.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Motility

actively mobile (based on Ranellidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Ranellidae)

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	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Sassia (Byramia) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)	1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Sassia (Personella) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)	41	56.0 Ma Paleocene	28.4 Ma Oligocene
Sassia (Sassia) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)	6	47.8 Ma Eocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Austrosassia abbotti species	listed (PBDB)	1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Austrosassia annectans ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Austrosassia crassicostatus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Austrosassia tortirostris ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	2	23.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Austrotriton cyphus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Austrotriton gibbus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Austrotriton protensus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Austrotriton textilis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	2	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Austrotriton tumulosus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Austrotriton woodsii ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Charonia (Sassia) angusta ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Charonia (Sassia) danica species	listed (PBDB)	4	61.6 Ma Paleocene	61.6 Ma Paleocene
Proxicharonia palmeri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Sassia apenninica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	11	23.0 Ma Miocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Sassia armata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	3	28.4 Ma Oligocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Sassia carlea species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Sassia carmenensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	41.3 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Sassia indica ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Sassia kampyla species	listed (PBDB)	1	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Sassia leucostomoides species	listed (PBDB)	13	3.60 Ma Pliocene	0 Ma Extant
Sassia lewisi species	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Sassia melpangi species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Sassia morgani ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Sassia nucleoides ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	5	56.0 Ma Paleocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Sassia parvula ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Sassia philomelae species	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Sassia radialis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Sassia tatei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Sassia warreni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1872	Charonia (Sassia) Bellardi
1903	Austrotriton Cossmann p. 93
1904	Triton (Sassia) Sacco p. 38
1929	Negyrina Iredale
1929	Cymatoma Iredale p. 177
1929	Charoniella Powell and Bartrum p. 426
1931	Austrosassia Finlay p. 7
1936	Phanozesta Iredale
1938	Proxicharonia Powell p. 373
1938	Sassia Turner p. 91
1960	Charonia (Sassia) Kojumdgieva and Strachimirov p. 137
1964	Charonia (Sassia) Karagiuleva p. 189
1976	Sassia (Austrosassia) Beu pp. 304 - 305
1976	Sassia (Austrotriton) Beu p. 305
1978	Sassia Beu p. 30

Year	Name and Author
1978	Sassia (Proxicharonia) Beu p. 32
1987	Sassia Squires p. 40
1993	Sassia Dockery p. 78
1993	Sassia Wilson p. 249
2002	Sassia Harzhauser p. 92
2002	Austrosassia Sepkoski, Jr.
2002	Austrotriton Sepkoski, Jr.
2002	Proxicharonia Sepkoski, Jr.
2002	Sassia Sepkoski, Jr.
2004	Sassia Harzhauser p. 135
2005	Sassia (Austrotriton) Beu p. 33
2005	Sassia Beu p. 103
2007	Sassia Harasewych and Beu p. 90
2008	Sassia Nielson and Valdovinos p. 209
2017	Sassia Darragh p. 52

References

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

Turner F. E. (1938) Stratigraphy and Mollusca of the Eocene of western Oregon, Geological Society of America Special Paper 10, 1-130

Squires R. L. (1987) Eocene molluscan paleontology of the Whitaker Peak area, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California, Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 388, 1-93

Dockery D. T. (1993) The Streptoneuran gastropods, exclusive of the Stenoglossa, of the coffee sand (Campanian) of Northeastern Mississippi, Bulletin (Mississippi Office of Geology) 129, 1-191

Wilson B. (1993) , Australian Marine Shells 1

Harzhauser M. (2002) Marine und brachyhaline Gastropoden aus dem Karpatium des Korneubuger Beckens und der Kreuzstettener Bucht (Österreich, Untermiozän), Beiträge zur Paläontologie 27, 61-159

Harzhauser M. (2004) Oligocene gastropod faunas for the Eastern Mediterranean (Mesohellenic Trough/Greece and Esfahan-Sirjan Basin/Central Iran), Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 248, 93-181

Beu A. G. (2005) Neogene fossil tonnoidean gastropods of Indonesia, Scripta Geologica 130, 1-186

Harasewych M. G., Beu A. G. (2007) Sassia melpangi, a new ranellid species (Gastropoda: Tonoidea) from the Central Pacific, The Nautilus 121 2, 90-94

Nielson S. N., Valdovinos C. (2008) Early Pleistocene mollusks of the Tubul Formation, south-central Chile, The Nautilus 122 4, 201-216

Darragh T. A. (2017) Further Mollusca from the late Eocene Pallinup Formation, Eucla Basin, Western Australia, Records of the Western Australian Museum 32, 29-100 doi:10.18195/issn.0312-3162.32(1).2017.029-100

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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