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Murchisoniina ✝
Source Data |
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Rank | order (PBDB) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Murchisoniina | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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Status (PBDB) | extinct | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxon Size (PBDB) | 2,436 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First Recorded Appearance | 485 - 479 Ma Paleozoic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Recorded Appearance | 2.59 - 0.01 Ma Pleistocene | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Motility | facultatively mobile (based on Murchisoniina) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vision | limited (based on Gastropoda) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Diet | suspension feeder (based on Murchisoniina) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ecospace Comments | LIFE HISTORY: Surficial, fac.-motile unattached, suspension feeding according to Bambach et al (2007). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taphonomy | aragonite (based on Gastropoda) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary Reference (PBDB) | L. R. Cox and J.B. Knight. 1960. Suborders of the Archaeogastropoda. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 33:262-264 |
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Eotomarioidea ✝ superfamily | listed (PBDB) | 3,961 | 479 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician | 2.59 Ma Pleistocene | |
Loxonematoidea ✝ superfamily | listed (PBDB) | 2,266 | 485 Ma Cambrian | 47.8 Ma Eocene | |
Murchisonioidea ✝ superfamily | listed (PBDB) | 1,401 | 485 Ma Cambrian | 133 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous | |
Straparollinoidea ✝ superfamily | listed (PBDB) | 93 | 485 Ma Cambrian | 393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian | |
Subulitoidea ✝ superfamily | listed (PBDB) | 487 | 485 Ma Cambrian | 260 Ma Permian |
Synonymy List
Year | Name and Author |
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1960 | Murchisoniina Cox and Knight |
1960 | Murchisoniina Knight et al. p. 290 |
1999 | Murchisoniina Wagner |
2003 | Murchisoniina Jeffery |
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!
Mount Carroll Quarry, Mount Carroll, Carroll County, Illinois, USA