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Pycnodonteinae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	62027	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=62027

Rank

subfamily (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Ostreida : Gryphaeidae : Pycnodonteinae

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	Bivalvia	Linnaeus 1758
-	Eubivalvia	Carter 2011
subclass	Autobranchia
infraclass	Pteriomorphia
-	Ostreomorphi	Ferussac 1822
-	Ostreioni	Ferussac 1822
-	Ostreata	Ferussac 1822
superorder	Ostreiformii	Ferussac 1822
order	Ostreida
suborder	Ostreidina
superfamily	Ostreoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Gryphaeidae	Vialov 1936
subfamily	Pycnodonteinae	Stenzel 1959

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Pycnodonteinae	subfamily	belongs to Gryphaeidae	stated with evidence	Vokes, 1980
Pycnodonteinae	subfamily	belongs to Gryphaeidae	stated without evidence	Maxwell, 1992
Pycnodonteinae	subfamily	belongs to Gryphaeidae	stated with evidence	Perrilliat, 1994
Pycnodonteinae	subfamily	belongs to Gryphaeidae	stated without evidence	Stilwell, 1998
Pycnodonteinae	subfamily	belongs to Ostreacea	stated with evidence	Marquet, 2002
Pycnodonteinae	subfamily	belongs to Gryphaeidae	stated with evidence	Beu, 2006
Pycnodonteinae	subfamily	belongs to Gryphaeidae	stated without evidence	Bouchet et al., 2010
Pycnodonteinae	subfamily	belongs to Gryphaeidae	stated with evidence	Carter et al., 2011
Pycnodonteinae	subfamily	belongs to Gryphaeidae	stated without evidence	Robinson and Lee, 2011

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

14 (19%)

First Recorded Appearance

140 - 133 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Environment

marine,brackish (based on Ostreida)

Motility

stationary, attached (based on Gryphaeidae)

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Gryphaeidae)

Taphonomy

low Mg calcite (based on Gryphaeidae)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

H. E. Vokes. 1980. Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue. Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Hyotissini tribe	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Neopycnodontini tribe	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Pycnodonteini tribe	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Costeina ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Gigantostrea ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	70	61.6 Ma Paleocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Hyotissa genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	260	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Labrostrea ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Monticulina ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Neopycnodonta genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	10	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Neopycnodonte genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	54	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Pycnodonte genus	listed (PBDB)	984	140 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Texigryphaea ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1959	Pycnodonteinae Stenzel
1980	Pycnodonteinae Vokes p. 63
1983	Pycnodonteinae Gliozzi and Malatesta p. 89
1983	Costeininae Vialov
1987	Pycnodonteinae Moore pp. 17, 18
1988	Pycnodonteinae Freneix et al. p. 2
1990	Pycnodonteinae Beu et al. p. 396
1990	Pycnodonteinae Squires and Demetrion p. 386
1992	Pycnodonteinae Maxwell p. 69

Year	Name and Author
1992	Pycnodontinae Ward p. 75
1994	Pycnodonteinae Perrilliat p. 233
1998	Pycnodonteinae Stilwell p. 50
2002	Pycnodontinae Marquet
2006	Pycnodonteinae Beu p. 212
2010	Pycnodonteinae Bouchet et al.
2011	Pycnodonteinae Carter et al. p. 8
2011	Pycnodonteinae Robinson and Lee p. 143
2018	Pycnodonteinae Squires p. 16

References

Vokes H. E. (1980) Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue, Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue

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

Moore E. J. (1987) Tertiary Marine Pelycypods of California and Baja California: Plicatulidae to Ostreidae, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1228 C, 1-53

Freneix S., Saint Martin J.-P., et al (1988) Huîtres du Messinien d'Oranie (Algérie occidentale) et Paléobiologie de l'ensemble de la faune de Bivalves, Bull. Mus. Natn. Hist. Nat., Paris 10 1, 1-21

Beu A. G., Maxwell P.A., et al (1990) Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand, New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 58

Squires R. L., Demetrion R. (1990) New Eocene Marine Bivalves from Baja California Sur, Mexico, Journal of Paleontology 64 3, 382-391

Maxwell P. A. (1992) Eocene Mollusca from the vicinity of McCulloch's Bridge, Waihao River, South Canterbury, New Zealand: Paleoecology and systematics, New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 65, 1-280

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

Perrilliat M. C. (1994) Bivalvos de la Formación Tuxpan (Mioceno Medio), Estado de Veracruz, México, Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 11 2, 232-242

Stilwell J. D. (1998) Late Cretaceous Mollusca from the Chatham Islands, New Zealand, Alcheringa 2, 29-85

Marquet R. (2002) The Neogene Amphineura and Bivalvia (Protobranchia and Pteriomorphia) from Kallo and Doel (Oost Vlaanderen, Belgium), Palaeontos 2, 1-100

Beu A. G. (2006) Marine Mollusca of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 2. Biostratigraphically useful and new Pliocene to Recent bivalves, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 36 4, 151-338

Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., et al (2010) Nomenclator of Bivalve Families with a Classification of Bivalve Families, Malacologia 52 2, 1-184 doi:10.4002/040.052.0201

Carter J. G., Altaba C. R., et al (2011) A Synoptical Classification of the Bivalvia (Mollusca), University of Kansas Paleontological Institute Paleontological Contributions 4, 1-47

Robinson J. H., Lee D. E. (2011) A shallow, warm-water calcitic molluscan fauna from an Early Oligocene seamount, North Otago, New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 54 1, 135-147 doi:10.1080/00288306.2011.537612

Squires R. L. (2018) Paleocene and Eocene oysters from the West Coast of the United States: Revision of named species and recognition of new species, Contributions in Science 526, 1-29

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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