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Triphoroidea
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| Rank | superfamily (PBDB) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Triphoroidea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status (PBDB) | extant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 180 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Extant Size (PBDB) | 67 (37%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 168 - 166 Ma Middle Jurassic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Motility | actively mobile (based on Triphoroidea) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vision | limited (based on Gastropoda) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Diet | carnivore (based on Triphoroidea) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ecospace Comments | LIFE HISTORY: Browsing carnivores according to Todd (2001). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taphonomy | aragonite (based on Gastropoda) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | D. T. Dockery. 1993. The Streptoneuran gastropods, exclusive of the Stenoglossa, of the coffee sand (Campanian) of Northeastern Mississippi. Bulletin (Mississippi Office of Geology) 129:1-191 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Cerithiopsidae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 528 | 129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Newtoniellidae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 80 | 168 Ma Middle Jurassic | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Triforidae family | listed (PBDB) | 197 | 122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Triphoridae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 320 | 66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 0 Ma Extant |
References
| Dockery D. T. (1993) The Streptoneuran gastropods, exclusive of the Stenoglossa, of the coffee sand (Campanian) of Northeastern Mississippi, Bulletin (Mississippi Office of Geology) 129, 1-191 |
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!
