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Description

Pseudophoridae is an extinct family of tropical warm-water Paleozoic sea snails.This family is unassigned to superfamily. This family has no subfamilies.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3245213	https://www.gbif.org/species/3245213
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	57201	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=57201

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pleurotomariida : Pseudophoridae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Euomphalina : Pseudophoridae

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	Eogastropoda	Ponder and Lindberg 1996
order	Euomphalina	de Koninck 1881
superfamily	Euomphaloidea
family	Pseudophoridae	Miller 1889

Scientific Name

Pseudophoridae

Name Published In

Miller, S. A. (1889). North American Geology and Palaeontology for the use of Amateurs, Students and Scientists. Western Methodist Book Concern. Cincinnati. 1-664.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Pseudophoridae	family	belongs to Pseudophoracea	stated with evidence	Knight et al., 1960
Pseudophoridae	family	belongs to Pseudophoroidea	stated without evidence	Golikov and Starobogatov, 1975
Pseudophoridae	family	belongs to Xenophoroidea	stated with evidence	Ponder and Warén, 1988
Pseudophoridae	family	belongs to Pseudophoracea	stated with evidence	Kulas and Batten, 1997
Pseudophoridae	family	belongs to Euomphaloidea	stated with evidence	Wagner, 1999
Pseudophoridae	family	belongs to Gastropoda	stated without evidence	Bouchet et al., 2005

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

101

First Recorded Appearance

450 - 446 Ma
Late/Upper Ordovician

Last Recorded Appearance

16.0 - 13.8 Ma
Miocene

Motility

stationary (based on Euomphaloidea)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Euomphaloidea)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

S. A. Miller. 1889. North American geology and palaeontology for the use of amateurs, students and scientists

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Decorospirinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)	16	409 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	372 Ma Late/Upper Devonian
Pseudophorinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)	1	388 Ma Middle Devonian	388 Ma Middle Devonian
Astralites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	13	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	388 Ma Middle Devonian
Bergmadsenella ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Dentanitella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	388 Ma Middle Devonian	388 Ma Middle Devonian
Devonoconica ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	388 Ma Middle Devonian	388 Ma Middle Devonian
Dongiovannia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Dutrochus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Eotrochus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	14	345 Ma Carboniferous	336 Ma Carboniferous
Gaspephorus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Kowalatrochus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	384 Ma Middle Devonian	382 Ma Late/Upper Devonian
Pagodea ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	441 Ma Silurian	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Palaeonustus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Peelophorus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Petrochus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	13	411 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	388 Ma Middle Devonian
Protocalyptraea ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	384 Ma Middle Devonian	382 Ma Late/Upper Devonian
Pseudophorus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	18	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	16.0 Ma Miocene
Pseudotectus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	15	427 Ma Silurian	403 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Sallya ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	21	290 Ma Permian	269 Ma Permian
Scalaetrochus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	7	411 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Shedhornia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	269 Ma Permian	269 Ma Permian
Siluriphorus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	11	433 Ma Silurian	411 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Taemasotrochus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	409 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	408 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Yochelsonatia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	419 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	419 Ma Early/Lower Devonian

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Palaeonustidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pleurotomariida : Palaeonustidae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1889	Pseudophoridae Miller
1938	Palaeonustidae Wenz
1960	Pseudophoridae Knight et al. p. 298
1975	Pseudophoridae Golikov and Starobogatov p. 208
1988	Palaeonustidae Ponder and Warén p. 300
1988	Pseudophoridae Ponder and Warén p. 300
1997	Pseudophoridae Kulas and Batten p. 51
1999	Pseudophoridae Wagner
2003	Pseudophoridae Jeffery
2005	Pseudophoridae Bouchet et al. p. 242

References

Miller S. A. , North American geology and palaeontology for the use of amateurs, students and scientists, 1-664

Knight J. B., Cox L. R., et al (1960) Systematic descriptions, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Mollusca I 1, 169-339

Golikov A. N., Starobogatov Y. I. (1975) Systematics of prosobranch gastropods, Malacologia 15 2, 185-232

Ponder W. F., Warén A. (1988) Appendix: classification of the Caenogastropoda and Heterostropha - a list of the family-group names and higher taxa, Malacological Review Suppl. 4, 288-326

Kulas H. A., Batten R. L. (1997) Silicified gastropods from the Permian Phosphoria rock complex of Wyoming, Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 31 2, 33-58

Wagner P. J. (1999) Phylogenetics of the earliest anisostrophically coiled gastropods, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 88, 1-132

Jeffery P. (2003) GastroClass: Gastropod Classification Website

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

Miller, S. A. (1889). North American Geology and Palaeontology for the use of Amateurs, Students and Scientists. Western Methodist Book Concern. Cincinnati. 1-664. - via World Register of Marine Species

Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526. - via World Register of Marine Species

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47(1-2): 1-397. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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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