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Knefastia

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Description

Knefastia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4603283	https://www.gbif.org/species/4603283
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	11235	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=11235

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Pseudomelatomidae : Knefastia

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Clavatulidae : Knefastia

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	Conoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Turridae	Swainson 1840
family	Clavatulidae
genus	Knefastia	Dall 1919

Scientific Name

Knefastia Dall, 1919

Name Published In

Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 56, no. 2288

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Knefastia	genus	belongs to Turridae	stated without evidence	Olsson, 1931
Knefastia	subgenus	belongs to Clavatula	stated without evidence	Durham, 1944
Knefastia	subgenus	belongs to Fusuturricula	stated with evidence	Nowell-Usticke, 1969
Knefastia	genus	belongs to Turriculinae	stated without evidence	Addicott, 1970
Knefastia	genus	belongs to Neogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Knefastia	genus	belongs to Turriculinae	stated with evidence	Landau and Marques da Silva, 2010

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

4 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

38.0 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Turridae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Turridae)

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/Knefastia

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Knefastia altenai species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Knefastia brooksvillensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Knefastia chira species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Knefastia dalli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Knefastia funiculata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Knefastia garcesana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Knefastia glypta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Knefastia hilli species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Knefastia howelli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Knefastia kugleri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Knefastia limonensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		24	20.4 Ma Miocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Knefastia lindae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	3.60 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Knefastia nigricans species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Knefastia olivacea species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Knefastia princeps species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Knefastia tuberculifera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Knefastia walkeri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Knefastia waltonia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1919	Knefastia Dall
1931	Knefastia Olsson p. 119
1944	Clavatula (Knefastia) Durham
1969	Fusuturricula (Kenfastia) Nowell-Usticke p. 21
1970	Knefastia Addicott p. 131
2002	Knefastia Sepkoski, Jr.
2010	Knefastia Landau and Marques da Silva p. 107

References

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

Olsson A. A. (1931) Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 4, The Peruvian Oligocene, Bulletins of American Paleontology 17 63

Durham J. W. (1944) Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington, University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 27, 101 -212

Addicott W.O. (1970) Miocene Gastropods and Biostratigraphy of the Kern River Area, California, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 642, 1-172

Landau B., Marques da Silva C. (2010) Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy, Palaeontos 19, 1-221

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

Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 56, no. 2288 - 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

Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2010). Nomenclator of Molluscan Supraspecific Names. [Unpublished database]. - via World Register of Marine Species

Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308. - 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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