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Sinuitina ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4606938	https://www.gbif.org/species/4606938
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	8379	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=8379

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Sinuitidae : Sinuitina

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Bellerophontida : Tropidodiscidae : Sinuitina

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
order	Bellerophontida	Ulrich and Scofield 1897
superfamily	Tropidodiscoidea	Knight 1956
family	Tropidodiscidae
genus	Sinuitina	Knight 1945

Scientific Name

Sinuitina Knight, 1945

Name Published In

J. Paleont., 19

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Sinuitina	genus	belongs to Bucaniellidae	stated with evidence	Knight et al., 1960
Sinuitina	genus	belongs to Bucanellidae	stated without evidence	Starobogatov, 1970
Sinuitina	genus	belongs to Bucanellidae	stated with evidence	Wahlman, 1992
Sinuitina	genus	belongs to Cyrtolitidae	stated with evidence	Ebbestad and Yochelson, 2000
Sinuitina	genus	belongs to Bellerophontida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Sinuitina	genus	belongs to Tropidodiscidae	stated with evidence	Wagner, 2017

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

456 - 446 Ma
Late/Upper Ordovician

Last Recorded Appearance

254 - 252 Ma
Permian

Motility

slow-moving (based on Bellerophontida)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

detritivore (based on Bellerophontida)

Taphonomy

aragonite, low Mg calcite (based on Bellerophontida)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. B. Knight. 1945. Some new genera of the Bellerophontacea. Journal of Paleontology 19:333-340

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Sinuitina (Globosinuitina) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)
Sinuitina (Sinuitina) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		3	409 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	409 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Bellerophon acutilira ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	388 Ma Middle Devonian	388 Ma Middle Devonian
Bellerophon brevilineatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	408 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	388 Ma Middle Devonian
Bellerophon multirugatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Bellerophon oldhami ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Sinuitina anneae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	354 Ma Carboniferous	354 Ma Carboniferous
Sinuitina crispa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sinuitina duchastelii ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian
Sinuitina gonzalezi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sinuitina gratiosus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	347 Ma Carboniferous	347 Ma Carboniferous
Sinuitina hornyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sinuitina keytei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sinuitina matuta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	439 Ma Silurian	439 Ma Silurian
Sinuitina morzadeci ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	388 Ma Middle Devonian	388 Ma Middle Devonian
Sinuitina nudidorsa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Sinuitina parva ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Sinuitina planilata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	456 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	456 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Sinuitina portulacoides ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		10	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian
Sinuitina slavinka ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Sinuitina spinari ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	411 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	408 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Sinuitina tenuis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sinuitina vortex species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Tropidocyclus cordiformis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	306 Ma Carboniferous	306 Ma Carboniferous
Tropidocyclus gratiosus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Tropidocyclus hyalinus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Spirilira Pinilla, Sabattini & Hlebszevitsch, 2007	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Sinuitidae : *Spirilira*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1945	Sinuitina Knight p. 333
1960	Sinuitina Knight et al. p. 175
1970	Sinuitina Starobogatov p. 300
1992	Sinuitina Wahlman
2000	Sinuitina Ebbestad and Yochelson
2002	Sinuitina Sepkoski, Jr.
2017	Sinuitina Wagner p. 8379

References

Knight J. B. (1945) Some new genera of the Bellerophontacea, Journal of Paleontology 19, 333-340

Knight J. B., Cox L. R., et al (1960) Systematic descriptions, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Mollusca I 1, 169-339

Starobogatov Y.I. (1970) Systematics of Early Paleozoic Monoplacophora, Paleontological Journal 10 3, 293-302

Wahlman G.P. (1992) Middle and Upper Ordovician symmetrical univalved mollusks (Monoplacophora and Bellerophontina) of the Cincinnati Arch region, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1066 O, 1-123

Ebbestad J.O.R., Yochelson E. L. (2000) Isostrophic molluscs (Tergomya and Gastropoda) from the Upper Ordovician of Norway, Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 80 2, 187-202

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

Wagner P. J. (2017) Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database

Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) - 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

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

J. Paleont., 19 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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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