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Austrofusus

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Description

Austrofusus is a genus of medium-sized sea snails or whelks, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrofusus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2305121	https://www.gbif.org/species/2305121
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	10810	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=10810

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Buccinidae : Austrofusus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

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)
family	Buccinidae	Rafinesque 1815
genus	Austrofusus	Kobelt 1879

Scientific Name

Austrofusus Kobelt, 1879

Name Published In

Syst. Conch. Cab., (2) Lief. 281

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Austrofusus	subgenus	belongs to Siphonalia	stated without evidence	Clark, 1938
Austrofusus	genus	belongs to Buccinidae	stated without evidence	Beu et al., 1990
Austrofusus	genus	belongs to Neogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

6 (67%)

First Recorded Appearance

61.6 - 56.0 Ma
Paleocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Buccinidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Buccinidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrofusus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Austrofusus (Austrofusus) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		5	37.2 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Austrofusus (Ellicea) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		2	61.6 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Austrofusus (Neocola) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		3	21.7 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Austrofusus acuticostatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus affiliatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus allani species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus alpha species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus appressus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus apudalpha species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus beta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus bicarinatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus chathamensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus claviculus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus cliftonensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus coerulescens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus conoideus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus cottoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus demissus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus flexuosus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus fontainei species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	3.60 Ma Pliocene	0 Ma Extant
Austrofusus gamma species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus glans species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus latecostatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus magnificus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus marshalli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus marwicki species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus ngatuturaensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus oneroaensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus pagoda species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus pliocenicus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus precursor species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus separabilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus solitarius species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus spiniferus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus taitae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus turbinelloides ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Austrofusus valedictus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Austrofusus zitteli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pleurotoma turbinelloides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Siphonalia (Austrofusus) bicarinata species	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Siphonalia bicarinata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		13	59.2 Ma Paleocene	38.0 Ma Eocene

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Aethocola Iredale, 1915	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Buccinidae : *Aethocola*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1879	Austrofusus Kobelt
1938	Siphonalia (Austrofusus) Clark
1990	Austrofusus Beu et al. p. 412
2002	Austrofusus Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Clark B. L. (1938) Fauna from the Markley Formation (Upper Eocene) on Pleasant Creek, California\r\n, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 49, 683-730

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

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Syst. Conch. Cab., (2) Lief. 281 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Beu, A. G. & Marshall, B. A. 2010. Austrofusus Kobelt, 1879 replaced by Aethocola Iredale, 1915 in New Zealand (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Buccinulidae). Molluscan Research 30: 53-55. - via World Register of Marine Species

Beu, A.G. & Marshall, B.A. 2011. Retraction: Austrofusus glans (Roding, 1798) is the type species of Austrofusus Kobelt, 1879 (Gastropoda: Buccinulidae). Molluscan Research 31: 61-62. - via World Register of Marine Species

Fraussen, K. (2010). Buccinidae checklist. Pers. Com. - via World Register of Marine Species

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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