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Boreotrophon

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Description

Boreotrophon is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2304322	https://www.gbif.org/species/2304322
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	10851	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=10851

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricidae : Boreotrophon

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	Prosobranchia	Milne-Edwards 1848
superorder	Caenogastropoda	Cox 1959
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Muricoidea	de Costa 1776
family	Muricidae	Rafinesque 1815
genus	Boreotrophon	P.Fischer 1884

Scientific Name

Boreotrophon P.Fischer, 1884

Name Published In

Man. Conch.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Boreotrophon	subgenus	belongs to Trophon	stated without evidence	Moody, 1916
Boreotrophon	genus	belongs to Muricidae	stated with evidence	Harzhauser and Mandic, 2001
Boreotrophon	genus	belongs to Neogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (33%)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Muricidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Muricidae)

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

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Boreotrophon alaskanus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon albus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon aleuticus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon aomoriensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon apolyonis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon avalonensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon bentleyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon candelabrum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon cascadiensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon cepula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon clathratus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon clavatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon cordellensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon coronatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon cortesianus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon cymatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon dabneyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon disparilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon durhami species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon egorovi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon elegantulus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon eucymatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon fleenerensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon flos species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon gaidenkoi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon harasewychi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Boreotrophon hazardi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon houarti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon johnsoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon kabati species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon laevis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Boreotrophon macouni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon mazatlanicus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon meridionalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon multicostatus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	3.60 Ma Pliocene	0 Ma Extant
Boreotrophon obesus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon okhotensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon pacificus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon pedroanus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon pseudotripherus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon pygmaeus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon rotundatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon santarosensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon subapolyonis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon tannerensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon tetricus species	listed (PBDB)		6	5.33 Ma Miocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Boreotrophon tolomius species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon triangulatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon tripherus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon trophonis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon truncatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon vancouverensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon verrilli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Boreotrophon xestra species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Fusus tetricus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Trophon (Boreotrophon) raymondi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	3.60 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Trophon tetricus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1884	Boreotrophon Fischer
1916	Trophon (Boreotrophon) Moody p. 44
2001	Boreotrophon Harzhauser and Mandic p. 707
2001	Boreotrophon Todd
2002	Boreotrophon Sepkoski, Jr.

References

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

Moody C. L. (1916) Fauna of the Fernando of Los Angeles, University of California, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 10 4, 39-62

Harzhauser M., Mandic O. (2001) Late Oligocene gastropods and bivalves from the Lower and Upper Austrian Molasse Basin, Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Schriftenreihe der Erdwissenschaftlichen Komimissionen 14, 671-795

Todd J. A. (2001) Systematic list of gastropods in the Panama Paleontology Project collections

Jägerskiölds marina inventering (2008) L. A. Jägerskiölds inventering av marina evertebrater vid svenska Västkusten 1921-1938. Göteborgs Naturhistoriska Museum. Exceldokument, 2008. - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

McLean J.H. (1996). The Prosobranchia. In: Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. The Mollusca Part 2 – The Gastropoda. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. volume 9: 1-160. - via World Register of Marine Species

Barco, A.; Marshall, B.; Houart, R.; Oliverio, M. (2015). Molecular phylogenetics of Haustrinae and Pagodulinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) with a focus on New Zealand species. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 81(4): 476-488. - via World Register of Marine Species

Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al., 1998: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26. 526. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Aphia2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006 - 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: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - 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

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Man. Conch. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Hansson, Hans G. (2008) "MESS - Marina Evertebrater från Södra Skandinavien (Marine Invertebrates from South Scandinavia) - a teaching aid for students. Marina syd-skandinaviska ""evertebrater"", ett naturhistoriskt urval. Web-upplaga mars 2008. http://www.tmbl.gu.se/staff/HansGHanssonP.html" - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

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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