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Description

Minolia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Solariellidae.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3244977	https://www.gbif.org/species/3244977
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	8985	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=8985

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Trochida : Solariellidae : Minolia

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Trochidae : Minolia

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	Orthogastropoda	Ponder and Lindberg 1997
superorder	Vetigastropoda	Salvini-Plawen 1980
superfamily	Trochoidea
family	Trochidae	Rafinesque 1815
subfamily	Solariellinae	Powell 1951
genus	Minolia	A.Adams 1860

Scientific Name

Minolia A.Adams, 1860

Name Published In

Adams A. (1860). On some new genera and species of Mollusca from Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 3, 6: 331-337.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Minolia	genus	belongs to Minoliinae	stated with evidence	Kuroda et al., 1971
Minolia	genus	belongs to Solariellinae	implied	Wilson, 1993
Minolia	genus	belongs to Archaeogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Minolia	genus	belongs to Solariellidae	stated with evidence	Bouchet et al., 2005

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

16.0 - 13.8 Ma
Miocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Trochidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

grazer (based on Trochidae)

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/Minolia

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)
Minolia bojadorensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Minolia caifassii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Minolia chinensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Minolia cincta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Minolia climacota species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Minolia condei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Minolia eudeli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Minolia liricincta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Minolia midwayensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Minolia nyssonus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Minolia padangensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Minolia perspectiva species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Minolia punctata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Minolia singaporensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Minolia strigata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Minolia subangulata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Minolia tigrina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Minolia tsuchii ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Minosia Dunker, 1882	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Trochida : Solariellidae : *Minosia*
Nachaeroplax Sowerby, 1903	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Trochida : Solariellidae : *Nachaeroplax*
Conotrochus Pilsbry, 1889	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Trochida : Solariellidae : *Conotrochus*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1860	Minolia Adams
1971	Minolia Kuroda et al. p. 38
1993	Minolia Wilson p. 72
2002	Minolia Sepkoski, Jr.
2005	Minolia Bouchet et al. pp. 110, 245

References

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

Wilson B. (1993) , Australian Marine Shells 1

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

Aphia2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus (authority adjusted) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

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

Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (3) 6 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Bouchet et al., 2001 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213. - via World Register of Marine Species

Adams A. (1860). On some new genera and species of Mollusca from Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 3, 6: 331-337. - 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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