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Lophiotoma
Description | Lophiotoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turridae, the turrids. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lophiotoma, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rank | genus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Turridae : Lophiotoma | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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Scientific Name | Lophiotoma Casey, 1904 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Name Published In | Casey T.L. (1904) Notes on the Pleurotomidae with description of some new genera and species. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, 14, 123–170. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Opinions (PBDB) |
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Status (PBDB) | extant | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxon Size (PBDB) | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Extant Size (PBDB) | 3 (60%) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First Recorded Appearance | 61.6 - 59.2 Ma Paleocene | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Motility | actively mobile (based on Turridae) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vision | limited (based on Gastropoda) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Diet | carnivore (based on Turridae) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taphonomy | aragonite (based on Gastropoda) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary Reference (PBDB) | B. Wilson. 1994. Australian Marine Shells 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lophiotoma |
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Lophiotoma (Lophiotoma) subgenus | listed (PBDB) | 5 | 11.6 Ma Miocene | 0 Ma Extant | |
Lophiotoma abbreviata species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 1 | 0.13 Ma Pleistocene | 0.13 Ma Pleistocene | |
Lophiotoma acuta species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Lophiotoma bisaya species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Lophiotoma bratasusa species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Lophiotoma brevicaudata species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Lophiotoma capricornica species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Lophiotoma cerithiformis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Lophiotoma cingulifera species | listed (PBDB) | 3 | 5.33 Ma Miocene | 0 Ma Extant | |
Lophiotoma deshayesii species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Lophiotoma dickkilburni species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Lophiotoma eniwetokensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Lophiotoma friedrichbonhoefferi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Lophiotoma hejingorum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Lophiotoma jickelii species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Lophiotoma kina species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Lophiotoma leucotropis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Lophiotoma madagascarensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Lophiotoma natalensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Lophiotoma oxytropis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Lophiotoma panglaoensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Lophiotoma picturata species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Lophiotoma polytropa species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Lophiotoma pseudoannulata species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Lophiotoma pseudocosmoi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Lophiotoma ruthveniana species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Lophiotoma semfala species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Lophiotoma sikatunai species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Lophiotoma tayabasensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Lophiotoma unedo species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Lophiotoma verticala species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Lophiotoma vezzaroi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Turris (Lophiotoma) quilonica ✝ species | listed (PBDB) | 3 | 23.0 Ma Miocene | 16.0 Ma Miocene | |
Turris quilonica species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB |
Obsolete Names
Name | Source | Taxon Rank | Taxonomy |
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Lophioturris | GBIF | genus | Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Turridae : Lophioturris |
Synonymy List
Year | Name and Author |
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1904 | Lophiotoma Casey |
1960 | Lophiotoma MacNeil p. 100 |
1961 | Turris (Lophiotoma) Dey |
1982 | Lophiotoma Ladd p. 62 |
1982 | Lophiotoma (Lophioturris) Ladd p. 63 |
1994 | Lophiotoma Wilson p. 193 |
2002 | Lophioturris Sepkoski, Jr. |
2011 | Lophiotoma Bouchet et al. p. 297 |
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!