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Buccinoidea

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	59411	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=59411

Rank

superfamily (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Buccinoidea

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	Prosobranchia	Milne-Edwards 1848
superorder	Caenogastropoda	Cox 1959
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Buccinoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Buccinoidea	superfamily	belongs to Stenoglossa	stated with evidence	Ward, 1992
Buccinoidea	superfamily	belongs to Neogastropoda	stated without evidence	Kosnik, 2002
Buccinoidea	superfamily	belongs to Gastropoda	stated without evidence	Kiessling, 2003
Buccinoidea	superfamily	belongs to Neogastropoda	stated without evidence	Harasewych and Kantor, 2004
Buccinoidea	superfamily	belongs to Neotaenioglossa	stated with evidence	Stilwell et al., 2004
Buccinoidea	superfamily	belongs to Neogastropoda	stated with evidence	Bouchet et al., 2005
Buccinoidea	superfamily	belongs to Neogastropoda	stated without evidence	Harzhauser, 2007

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

1,918

Extant Size (PBDB)

515 (27%)

First Recorded Appearance

372 - 359 Ma
Late/Upper Devonian

Motility

actively mobile (based on Neogastropoda)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Neogastropoda)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

M. A. Kosnik. 2002. personal opinion.

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Buccinidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	True Whelk	4,051	164 Ma Middle Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Buccinulidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		14	55.8 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Colubrariidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	41.3 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Columbellidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1,913	133 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Fasciolariidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2,927	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Melongenidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1,392	372 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	0 Ma Extant
Nassariidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2,351	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Tromina genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1815	Buccinacea Rafinesque
1957	Buccinacea Rivera p. 181
1964	Buccinacea Sohl p. 372
1980	Buccinacea Hickman p. 55
1983	Buccinacea Gliozzi and Malatesta p. 105
1984	Buccinacea Squires p. 31
1987	Buccinaceae Popenoe and Saul p. 28
1987	Buccinacea Squires p. 41
1987	Buccinacea Ward and Blackwelder p. 132

Year	Name and Author
1989	Buccinacea Squires et al. p. 212
1992	Buccinoidea Ward p. 130
2002	Buccinoidea Kosnik
2003	Buccinoidea Kiessling
2004	Buccinoidea Harasewych and Kantor p. 2
2004	Buccinoidea Harzhauser p. 136
2004	Buccinoidea Stilwell et al. pp. 27, 38
2005	Buccinoidea Bouchet et al. p. 254
2007	Buccinoidea Harzhauser p. 106

References

Kosnik M. A. (2002) personal opinion.

Rivera R. (1957) Moluscos fosiles de la Formacion Paracas, Dpto. de Ica, Sociedad Geologica del Peru Primer Congreso Nacional de Geologia Anales - Parte II 32, 165-219

Sohl N. F. (1964) Gastropods from the coffee Sand (Upper Cretaceous) of Mississippi, USGS Professional Paper 331C, 345-394

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

Gliozzi E., Malatesta A. (1983) I molluschi del Paleocene di Baixa Chinhauanine nel bacino del Rio Massintonto (Maputo - Mozambico), Geologica Romana 22, 85-145

Squires R. L. (1984) Megapaleontology of the Eocene Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, California, Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 350, 1-76

Popenoe W. P., Saul L. R. (1987) Evolution and classification of the Late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary gastropod Perissitys, Contributions in Science 380, 1-37

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

Ward L. W., Blackwelder B.W. (1987) Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at Lee Creek Mine, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 61, 113-283

Squires R. L., Zinsmeister W. J., et al (1989) Popenoeum, a New Pseudolivine Gastropod Genus: Widespread and Most Diversified during the Paleocene, Journal of Paleontology 63 2, 212-217

Ward L. W. (1992) Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America, Virginia Museum of Natural History 2

Kiessling W. (2003) Personal data

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

Stilwell J. D., Zinsmeister W. J., et al (2004) Early Paleocene Mollusks of Antarctica: Systematics, Paleoecology and Paleobiogeographic Significance, Bulletins of American Paleontology 367

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

Harzhauser M. (2007) Oligocene and Aquitanian gastropod faunas from the Sultanate of Oman and their biogeographic implications for the western Indo-Pacific., Palaeontographica Abteilung A 280, 75-121

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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