Pelagiellidae

Pelagiellidae is an extinct family of Paleozoic fossil marine molluscs.

Pelagiellidae
Drawing of the apical, apertural and basal view of Pelagiella atlantoides.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: †Helcionelloida
Order: †Pelagielliformes
Family: †Pelagiellidae
Knight, 1956[1]
Genera

See text

Synonyms
  • Proeccyliopteridae Kobayashi, 1962 (n.a.)[2]
  • Protoscaevogyridae Kobayashi, 1962 (n.a.)[2]

Mineralogy

Aragonite, with various microstructures - details in reference [3]

Taxonomy

The taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005[4] categorizes Pelagiellidae in the superfamilia Pelagielloidea within the Paleozoic molluscs of uncertain systematic position. This family has no subfamilies.

According to P. Yu. Parkhaev, the family Pelagiellidae is in the order Pelagiellifomes MacKinnon, 1985 within the subclass Archaeobranchia Parkhaev, 2001, in the class Helcionelloida Peel, 1991.

Genera

Genera in the family Pelagiellidae include:

  • Pelagiella Matthew, 1895[5] - type genus of the family Pelagiellidae
    • Pelagiella atlantoides - synonym: Cyrtolithes atlantoides
    • Pelagiella emeishanensis - image
  • Proeccyliopterus Kobayashi, 1962
  • Protoscaevogyra Kobayashi, 1939
  • Cambretina Horný, 1964
  • Costipelagiella Horný, 1964
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References
  1. Knight J. B. 1956. New families of Gastropoda. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 46(2): 41-42.
  2. Kobayashi (20 March) 1962. Journal of the Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, section 2 (Geology, Mineralogy, Geography, Geophysics), 14(1):17.
  3. Li, Guoxiang; Yun, Hao; Zhang, Xingliang; Li, Luoyang (2017-05-16). "Complex hierarchical microstructures of Cambrian mollusk Pelagiella : Insight into early biomineralization and evolution". Scientific Reports. 7 (1): 1935. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-02235-9. PMC 5434049. PMID 28512325.
  4. Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.); Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology, 47(1-2). ConchBooks: Hackenheim, Germany. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997. 397 pp. http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/imis2/ref.php?refid=78278
  5. Matthew G.F. 1895. The Protolenus fauna. Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences 14: 101-153. Pelagiella on the page 131. Plate VI., figure 6 a-c.


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