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Cassidae

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Description

The Cassidae are a taxonomic family of medium-sized, large, and sometimes very large sea snails commonly called helmet snails or bonnet snails. These are marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Tonnoidea and the clade Littorinimorpha.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	6761	https://www.gbif.org/species/6761
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	59582	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=59582

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Cassidae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Cassidae

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
superorder	Hypsogastropoda
infraorder	Littorinimorpha	Golikov and Starobogtov 1975
superfamily	Tonnoidea	(Suter 1913)
family	Cassidae	Latreille 1825

Scientific Name

Cassidae

Name Published In

Fam. Règn. Anim.: 194

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Cassidae	family	belongs to Taenioglossa	stated without evidence	Martin, 1904
Cassidae	family	belongs to Tonnacea	stated without evidence	Hickman, 1980
Cassidae	family	belongs to Mesogastropoda	stated without evidence	Squires, 1988
Cassidae	family	belongs to Tonnoidea	stated with evidence	Ponder and Warén, 1988
Cassidae	family	belongs to Tonnoidea	implied	Beesley, 1998
Cassidae	family	belongs to Caenogastropoda	stated without evidence	Wienrich, 2001
Cassidae	family	belongs to Cassoidea	stated without evidence	Harzhauser and Mandic, 2001
Cassidae	family	belongs to Tonnoidea	stated with evidence	Todd, 2001
Cassidae	family	belongs to Tonnoidea	stated without evidence	Harzhauser, 2002
Cassidae	family	belongs to Tonnoidea	stated with evidence	Beu, 2005
Cassidae	subfamily	belongs to Tonnidae	stated with evidence	Bouchet et al., 2005
Cassidae	family	belongs to Tonnoidea	stated with evidence	Beu, 2008
Cassidae	family	belongs to Tonnoidea	stated without evidence	Beu, 2010

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

184

Extant Size (PBDB)

63 (34%)

First Recorded Appearance

101 - 94 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Motility

actively mobile

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore

Ecospace Comments

LIFE HISTORY: Predatory carnivore according to Todd (2001).

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

P. L. Beesley. 1998. Mollusca: the southern synthesis. Fauna of Australia 5

Common Name(s)

Helmschnecken, Sturmhauben, Helmet Shells, Helmet Snails, トウカムリ

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Cassididae family	listed (PBDB)		20	89.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Cassinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		725	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Oocorythinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		14	33.9 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Phaliinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		502	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Casmaria genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		9	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Cassis genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		205	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Ceiba ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	48.6 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Cypraecassis genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		52	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Dalium genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		9	16.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Doliocassis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		11	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	37.2 Ma Eocene
Echinophoria genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		124	47.8 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Eucorys genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Galeodea genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		247	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Haydenia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	89.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	89.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Microsconsia genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Morionella genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Oocorys genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	33.9 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Phalium genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		75	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Sconsia genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		221	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Sconsodolium ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Semicassis genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		302	47.8 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Aspidomorpha fuscopunctata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Prioptera decempustulata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Oocorythidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Oocorythidae
Cassididae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Cassididae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1825	Cassidae Latreille
1904	Cassidae Martin p. 226
1980	Cassidae Hickman p. 41
1987	Cassidae Squires p. 39
1988	Cassidae Ponder and Warén p. 302
1988	Cassidae Squires p. 13
1998	Cassidae Beesley p. 794
1999	Cassidae Squires p. 18
2001	Cassidae Harzhauser and Mandic p. 705

Year	Name and Author
2001	Cassidae Todd
2001	Cassidae Wienrich p. 436
2002	Cassidae Harzhauser p. 91
2004	Cassidae Harzhauser p. 133
2005	Cassidae Beu p. 33
2005	Cassinae Bouchet et al. p. 253
2008	Cassidae Beu p. 272
2010	Cassidae Beu

References

Beesley P. L. (1998) Mollusca: the southern synthesis, Fauna of Australia 5

Martin G. C. (1904) Gastropoda, Maryland Geological Survey Miocene Text, 131-269

Hickman C. S. (1980) Paleogene Marine Gastropods of the Keasey Formation in Oregon, Bulletins of American Paleontology 78 310, 1-112

Squires R. L. (1987) Eocene molluscan paleontology of the Whitaker Peak area, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California, Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 388, 1-93

Ponder W. F., Warén A. (1988) Appendix: classification of the Caenogastropoda and Heterostropha - a list of the family-group names and higher taxa, Malacological Review Suppl. 4, 288-326

Squires R. L. (1988) Eocene Macropaleontology of Northern Lockwood Valley, Ventura County, California, Contributions in Science (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) 398, 1-23

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

Wienrich G. (2001) Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein), Gastropoda bis Cancellariidae 3, 385-639

Harzhauser M. (2002) Marine und brachyhaline Gastropoden aus dem Karpatium des Korneubuger Beckens und der Kreuzstettener Bucht (Österreich, Untermiozän), Beiträge zur Paläontologie 27, 61-159

Harzhauser M. (2004) Oligocene gastropod faunas for the Eastern Mediterranean (Mesohellenic Trough/Greece and Esfahan-Sirjan Basin/Central Iran), Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 248, 93-181

Beu A. G. (2005) Neogene fossil tonnoidean gastropods of Indonesia, Scripta Geologica 130, 1-186

Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P, et al (2005) A nomenclator and classification of gastropod family-group names, Malacologia 47 1-2, 1-368

Beu A. G. (2008) Recent deep-water Cassidae of the world. A revision of Galeodea, Oocorys, Sconsia, Echinophoria and related taxa, with new genera and species (Mollusca, Gastropoda), Memoires du Museum national d'Historie naturelle 196, 269-387

Beu A. G. (2010) Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus, Bulletins of American Paleontology 377-378, 1-550

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)

Higo, Shun'ichi, Paul Callomon, and Yoshihiro Goto, 1999: null. Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan: Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda. 749. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Abbott, Robert Tucker, 1974: null. American Seashells: The Marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of North America. 2nd ed.. 663. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Abbott, R. T. (1968). The Helmet shells of the world (Cassidae) Part 1. Indo-pacific Mollusca. 2(9): 7-201. - via World Register of Marine Species

Kreipl K. 1997. Recent Cassidae. Christa Hemmen, Wiesbaden, 151 p. - via World Register of Marine Species

Beu, A. G. (2008). Recent deep-water Cassidae of the world. A revision of Galeodea, Oocorys, Sconsia, Echinophoria and related taxa, with new genera and species (Mollusca, Gastropoda). in: Héros, V. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993). 196: 269-387. - via World Register of Marine Species

Iredale, T. (1927). A review of Australian helmet shells (family Cassididae — phylum Mollusca. Records of the Australian Museum. 15(5): 31-32. - via World Register of Marine Species

Riedel F. 1995. An outline of Cassoidean phylogeny (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Contributions to Tertiary and Quaternary Geology 32(4): 97–132. - via World Register of Marine Species

Verbinnen G., Segers L., Swinnen F., Kreipl K. & Monsecour D. (2016). Cassidae. An amazing family of seashells. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 251 pp. - via World Register of Marine Species

Bouchet, P., Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47(1-2): 1-397 ISBN 3-925919-72-4. - via World Register of Marine Species

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 1023 Cassidae (Mollusca) and Cassidinae (Insecta): placed on the Official List of Family-group Names in Zoology.Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 31, 127-129 (1974) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology

Beu, A.G. (2008). Recent deep-water Cassidae of the world. A revision of Galeodea, Oocorys, Sconsia, Echinophoria and related taxa, with new genera and species (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Tropical deep-sea benthos Volume 25., 269-387 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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