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Clathrospira ✝

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Clathrospira sp.

Mount Carroll Quarry, Mount Carroll, Carroll County, Illinois, USA

Clathrospira sp.

Mount Carroll Quarry, Mount Carroll, Carroll County, Illinois, USA

Clathrospira sp.

Mount Carroll Quarry, Mount Carroll, Carroll County, Illinois, USA

Clathrospira sp.

Mount Carroll Quarry, Mount Carroll, Carroll County, Illinois, USA

Clathrospira sp.

Mount Carroll Quarry, Mount Carroll, Carroll County, Illinois, USA

Clathrospira sp.

Mount Carroll Quarry, Mount Carroll, Carroll County, Illinois, USA

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4615137	https://www.gbif.org/species/4615137
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	8674	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=8674

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pleurotomariida : Eotomariidae : Clathrospira

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Murchisoniina : Eotomariidae : Clathrospira

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	Orthogastropoda	Ponder and Lindberg 1997
order	Murchisoniina	Cox and Knight 1960
superfamily	Eotomarioidea	Wenz 1938
family	Eotomariidae	Wenz 1938
subfamily	Eotomariinae	Wenz 1938
genus	Clathrospira	Ulrich & Scofield 1897

Scientific Name

Clathrospira Ulrich & Scofield, 1897

Name Published In

Fin. Rep. Surv. Minnesota, 3 (2), 954,

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Clathrospira	genus	belongs to Pleurotomariidae	stated with evidence	Ulrich and Scofield, 1897
Clathrospira	genus	belongs to Eotomariides	stated with evidence	Knight et al., 1960
Clathrospira	genus	belongs to Archaeogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Clathrospira	genus	belongs to Eotomariinae	stated with evidence	Wagner, 2017

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

479 - 470 Ma
Early/Lower Ordovician

Last Recorded Appearance

450 - 443 Ma
Paleozoic

Motility

facultatively mobile (based on Murchisoniina)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Murchisoniina)

Ecospace Comments

BODY SIZE: Data from Knight et al. (1960).

Taphonomy

minor ribbing

Primary Reference (PBDB)

E. O. Ulrich and W. H. Scofield. 1897. The Lower Silurian Gastropoda of Minnesota. The Paleontology of Minnesota 39(2):813-1081

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Clathrospira amouguerana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	458 Ma Middle Ordovician
Clathrospira conica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		33	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Clathrospira ogygia ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Clathrospira subconica ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		55	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Cyclonema phaedra ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	479 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician	479 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician
Pleurotomaria euconica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	468 Ma Middle Ordovician	466 Ma Middle Ordovician
Pleurotomaria hindei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Pleurotomaria sponsa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Pleurotomaria subconica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pleurotomaria trochiformis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	458 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	458 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Pleurotomaria virguncula ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		12	479 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician	478 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1897	Clathrospira Ulrich and Scofield
1960	Clathrospira Knight et al. p. 206
2002	Clathrospira Sepkoski, Jr.
2017	Clathrospira Wagner p. G289

References

Ulrich E. O., Scofield W. H. The Lower Silurian Gastropoda of Minnesota, The Paleontology of Minnesota 39 2, 813-1081

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

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

GBIF/Paleo Database - 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

Fin. Rep. Surv. Minnesota, 3 (2), 954, - 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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