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Coreospiridae ✝
Description | Coreospiridae is an extinct family of Paleozoic molluscs of uncertain position taxonomically. They might be snails (Gastropoda), Helcionelloida, or they might be Monoplacophora. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreospiridae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source Data |
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Rank | family | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Coreospiridae | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Helcionelloida : Helcionellida : Coreospiridae | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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Scientific Name | Coreospiridae | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Name Published In | Knight, J. B. (1947). Some new Cambrian bellerophont gastropods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 106(17): 1−11, pls. 1−2. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Opinions (PBDB) |
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Status (PBDB) | extinct | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxon Size (PBDB) | 35 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First Recorded Appearance | 541 - 530 Ma Cambrian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Recorded Appearance | 501 - 485 Ma Cambrian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Motility | slow-moving (based on Helcionellida) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vision | blind (based on Helcionelloida) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Diet | detritivore (based on Helcionellida) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ecospace Comments | BODY SIZE: Based on component genera; 2 of 2 genera share 1 to < 10 length, 2 of 2 share 1 to < 10 width. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary Reference (PBDB) | J. B. Knight. 1952. Primitive fossil gastropods and their bearing on gastropod classification. 117(13):1-56 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreospiridae |
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Anconochilus ✝ genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 1 | 501 Ma Cambrian | 501 Ma Cambrian | |
Cambrospira ✝ genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 1 | 530 Ma Cambrian | 530 Ma Cambrian | |
Coreospira ✝ genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 4 | 516 Ma Cambrian | 513 Ma Cambrian | |
Humilispira ✝ genus | listed (PBDB) | 2 | 520 Ma Cambrian | 516 Ma Cambrian | |
Kutanjia ✝ genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 2 | 516 Ma Cambrian | 516 Ma Cambrian | |
Latouchella ✝ genus | listed (PBDB) | 84 | 541 Ma Cambrian | 504 Ma Cambrian | |
Owenella ✝ genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 3 | 501 Ma Cambrian | 501 Ma Cambrian | |
Tichkaella ✝ genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 7 | 513 Ma Cambrian | 513 Ma Cambrian |
Obsolete Names
Name | Source | Taxon Rank | Taxonomy |
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Latouchellidae | GBIF | family | Animalia : Mollusca : Latouchellidae |
Archaeospiridae | GBIF | family | Animalia : Mollusca : Archaeospiridae |
Yangtzespiridae | GBIF | family | Animalia : Mollusca : Yangtzespiridae |
Synonymy List
Year | Name and Author |
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1952 | Coreospiridae Knight |
1960 | Coreospiridae Knight et al. p. 172 |
1975 | Coreospiridae Golikov and Starobogatov p. 207 |
1979 | Archaeospiridae Yu |
1984 | Yangtzespiridae Yu |
1984 | Yangtzespirinae Yu |
Year | Name and Author |
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1989 | Latouchellidae Golikov and Starobogatov |
1989 | Coreospiridae Missarzhevsky p. 177 |
2002 | Coreospiridae Parkhaev p. 34 |
2005 | Coreospiridae Bouchet et al. p. 241 |
2010 | Coreospiridae Parkhaev and Demidenko p. 1051 |
2020 | Coreospiridae Wagner |
References
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!