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Meekospiridae ✝
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| Rank | family (PBDB) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Meekospiridae | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 63 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 433 - 431 Ma Silurian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Recorded Appearance | 254 - 252 Ma Permian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Motility | actively mobile (based on Gastropoda) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vision | limited (based on Gastropoda) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taphonomy | aragonite (based on Gastropoda) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | J. B. Knight. 1936. Notes on Paleozoic Gastropoda. Journal of Paleontology 10(6):520-534 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Auriptygma ✝ genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 9 | 433 Ma Silurian | 260 Ma Permian | |
| Cambodgia ✝ genus | doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 4 | 269 Ma Permian | 265 Ma Permian | |
| Ceraunocochlis ✝ genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 22 | 359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian | 254 Ma Permian | |
| Girtyspira ✝ genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 60 | 359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian | 254 Ma Permian | |
| Meekospira ✝ genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 191 | 388 Ma Middle Devonian | 254 Ma Permian | |
| Nemdaella ✝ genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 5 | 272 Ma Permian | 272 Ma Permian | |
| Ninglangella ✝ genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 2 | 272 Ma Permian | 254 Ma Permian | |
| Oxyspira ✝ genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 2 | 393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian | 393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian |
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1936 | Meekospiridae Knight |
| 1960 | Meekospiridae Knight et al. p. 321 |
| 1988 | Meekospiridae Ponder and Warén p. 293 |
| 2000 | Meekospiridae Nützel et al. |
| 2005 | Meekospirinae Bouchet et al. p. 247 |
| 2005 | Meekospiridae Nützel and Pan p. 1181 |
| 2016 | Meekospiridae Nützel and Ketwetsuriya p. 506 |
| 2017 | Meekospiridae Wagner |
References
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!
