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Clavilithes

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1840Clavilithes Swainson
1904Rhopalithes Grabau p. 135
1922Rhopalithes Newton p. 32 figs. 2: 9-10
1922Clavilithes Woods p. 97
1925Fusus (Clavilithes) Vredenburg
1931Austrolithes Finlay p. 14
1935Clavilithes Oostingh p. 88
1939Clavilithes Mukerjee p. 62
1947Clavilithes Harris and Palmer p. 386
1967Clavilithes Abbass p. 92
1973Clavilithes (Rhopalites) Marasti p. 63
1973Clavilithes Marasti p. 93
1976Clavilithes Givens and Kennedy p. 973
1977Clavilithes Adegoke p. 176
1977Clavilithes (Rhopalithes) Adegoke p. 177
1983Clavilithes Gliozzi and Malatesta p. 106
1983Clavilithes Squires p. 359
1984Clavilithes Squires p. 31
1987Clavilithes Squires p. 41
1988Clavilithes Squires p. 14
1992Clavilithes Squires and Demetrion p. 33
1995Clavilithes (Rhopalithes) Pacaud and Le Renard p. 166
2002Austrolithes Sepkoski
2002Clavilithes Sepkoski
2002Rhopalites Sepkoski
2003Clavilithes Snyder p. 21
2017Austrolithes Darragh p. 71

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
RankNameAuthor
Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
orderNeogastropodaThiele 1929
superfamilyBuccinoidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyFasciolariidaeGray 1853
subfamilyFusininaeSwainson 1840
genusClavilithesSwainson 1840

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Clavilithes Swainson 1840
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Subg. Clavilithes (Clavilithes) Swainson 1840
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Clavilithes (Clavilithes) mozambensis Gliozzi and Malatesta 1983
Subg. †Clavilithes (Cosmolithes) Grabau 1904
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Subg. †Clavilithes (Rhopalites) Grabau 1904
Clavilithes arakanensis Vredenburg 1923
Clavilithes atahuallpai Hanna and Israelsky 1925
Clavilithes burtti Hanna and Israelsky 1925
Clavilithes cossmanni Vredenburg 1923
Clavilithes dameriacensis Deshayes 1864
Clavilithes hagni Traub 1979
Clavilithes harrisi Woods 1922
Clavilithes harrisii Maury 1912
Clavilithes hubbardanus Harris 1896
Clavilithes incertus Woods 1922
Clavilithes inopinatus Cossmann 1903
Clavilithes lagunitensis Olsson 1928
Clavilithes leilanensis Vredenburg 1923
Clavilithes noae Lamarck 1803
Clavilithes noetlingi Vredenburg 1925
Clavilithes pacificus Woods 1922
Clavilithes parisiensis Mayer-Eymar 1877
Clavilithes peruvianus Woods 1922
Clavilithes pozoensis Olsson 1928
Clavilithes songoensis Martin 1914
Clavilithes tabulatus Dickerson 1913
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Invalid names: Strombus fusus Martin 1879 [synonym]
Clavilithes woodringi Olsson 1928
Invalid names: Austrolithes Finlay 1931 [synonym], Rhopalithes Grabau 1904 [objective synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitec
Locomotion: actively mobilef
Life habit: epifaunalf
Diet: carnivoref
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2009-09-10 08:21:16
Modified: 2009-09-10 10:21:16
Source: f = family, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Danian to the top of the Late/Upper Miocene or 66.00000 to 5.33300 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 61.6 Ma

Collections (219 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Danian66.0 - 61.6France Cosmolithes faxensis (20816)
Danian66.0 - 61.6USA (Texas) C. sp. (84467)
Danian66.0 - 61.6USA (Alabama) C. hubbardanus (90604)
Danian66.0 - 61.6USA (Mississippi) C. hubbardanus (98527)
Danian66.0 - 61.6Poland C. hauniensis, C. sp., Cosmolithes reticulatus (27625)
Danian66.0 - 61.6Belgium C. reticulatus (22931)
Paleocene66.0 - 56.0Austria (Salzburg) C. hagni, C. superbus (84335)
Selandian61.6 - 59.2Nigeria C. toyei, C. oluwasanmii (7791)
Selandian61.6 - 59.2USA (Alabama) C. hubbardanus (2918)
Thanetian59.2 - 56.0Poland C. angulatus (27018 27019) C. sp. (27020)
Thanetian59.2 - 56.0USA (New Jersey) C. nobilis (91761)
Thanetian59.2 - 56.0Trinidad and Tobago Clavella hubbardanus, Clavella harrisii (80170)
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8Saudi Arabia (Ash Sharqiyah) C. longaevus (42459)
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8Belgium C. maximus (77608)
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8USA (Alabama) C. sp. (80779 80780 80785) C. sp. A (92375 98332)
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8USA (Texas) C. acus, C. parvetorbis (7788 83950) C. parvetorbis (7789 84337)
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8Mexico (Baja California) C. tabulatus (5499 5506)
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8United Kingdom (England) C. parisiensis (3267)
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8Spain C. parisiensis (75330 75342 75343 75346 75350 75356 75357 75359 75370)
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8USA (California) Clavella tabulata (122337) C. tabulatus (177611 178718 178719 178748 178749 178750 185192 193541)
Ypresian - Lutetian56.0 - 41.3USA (Alabama) C. penrosei (81182)
Ypresian - Lutetian56.0 - 41.3USA (California) C. sp. (8014) C. sp., C. tabulatus (8011)
Eocene56.0 - 33.9USA (California) Nyctilochus hornii (207112)
Early/Lower Eocene55.8 - 48.6Peru C. burtti, C. pacificus (93759)
Early/Lower Eocene55.8 - 48.6India C. leilanensis (42879)
Early/Lower Eocene - Middle Eocene55.8 - 37.2United Kingdom (England) C. maximus (3257)
Middle Eocene48.6 - 37.2USA (New Jersey) C. hercules (91758 92179 92181) C. hercules, C. paucicostatus, C. propinquus, C. samsoni, C. sp. B (91760)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3Belgium C. maximus (77611)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3France C. laevigatus (171532) C. noae (171535) Fusus noae (184107)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3Bulgaria (Vidin) C. noae (102295)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3USA (Alabama) C. penrosei (81224)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3USA (South Carolina) C. abruptus (52344) C. sp., C. abruptus (32901)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3USA (Texas) C. acus, C. parvetorbis (205520) C. chamberlaini (92219) C. chamberlaini, C. penrosei, C. sp. (205454) C. kennedyanus (90455 205421) C. kennedyanus, C. penrosei (205527) C. kennedyanus, C. penrosei, C. sp. (205496) C. kennedyanus, C. sp. (205440) C. parvetorbis (205223 205533) C. penrosei (205478) C. sp. (205436 205537) C. texanus, C. sp. (205503)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3United Kingdom (England) C. britannicus, C. hantoniensis, C. contabulatus, C. scalaris, Cosmolithes uniplicatus, Rhopalithes rugoides, C. parisiensis, Rhopalithes noae (8124) C. clavetellus, C. maximus, Cosmolithes uniplicatus, C. parisiensis (8125) C. cylindricus (42108 42113) C. sp. (8047)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3France (Yvelines) C. parisiensis (177971 177972 177975)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3USA (California) C. n. sp. B, C. tabulatus (8012) C. sp. (8013 200657) C. sp., C. tabulatus (207189) C. tabulatus (5532 5542 5543 207188)
Bartonian41.3 - 38.0United Kingdom (England) C. cylindricus, C. elongatus, C. longaevus, C. scalaris (42636) C. elongatus, C. sp. (42648) C. longaevus, C. macrospira (42641) C. longaevus, C. macrospira, C. scalaris (42639) C. scalaris (42644)
Bartonian41.3 - 38.0Croatia C. palareensis (124371) C. palareensis, C. noae (124309)
Bartonian41.3 - 38.0Egypt C. nilotica (2960)
Bartonian41.3 - 38.0France (Oise) C. scalaris, C. angulatus (3494)
Bartonian41.3 - 38.0Colombia C. harrisi (88278)
Bartonian41.3 - 38.0USA (Arkansas) C. humerosus (92042)
Bartonian41.3 - 38.0Spain C. parisiensis (141924 142111)
Bartonian41.3 - 38.0USA (Alabama) C. columbaris, C. pachyleurus, C. sp. (205489) C. humerosus (3503 3505) C. kennedyanus (2443 2453 2454) C. pachyleurus, C. raphanoides, C. protextus (90600) C. penrosei (2441) C. samsoni (98355)
Bartonian41.3 - 38.0France C. scalaris, C. houdasi, C. clavellatus, C. hexacolpus, C. clavelloides, C. lamarcki, C. uniplicatus, C. noae (78567)
Bartonian41.3 - 38.0USA (Mississippi) C. columbaris (92175 98463) C. humerosus (90471 90643 90704 91100 99628 99632 99635 99675 164232 205526 205535) C. kennedyanus (2435 2437 2449 2451 90709 91050 99671 99736 100141 205508) C. penrosei (90707) C. texanus (90887 92174)
Bartonian41.3 - 38.0USA (North Carolina) C. abruptus (91736)
Bartonian41.3 - 38.0USA (Texas) C. penrosei (205222 205429) C. penrosei, C. regexus, C. texanus (90886) C. penrosei, C. sp. (205422 205480) C. penrosei, C. texanus (205271) C. regexus (91894 92208 92212 92214) C. regexus, C. texanus (90884 92210) C. sp. (205266 205411 205425 205430 205481 205484) C. sp., C. spp., C. texanus (205410) C. sp., C. texanus (205267 205485) C. texanus (92204 92206 92207 92220 98749 98872 205477)
Bartonian41.3 - 38.0USA (Louisiana) C. humerosus (3534 90305 90449 92157 92303 92304 92357 92374 100147) C. humerosus, C. sp. (205501) C. kennedyanus (44518) C. penrosei (92346) C. penrosei, C. regexus, C. texanus (98787)
Bartonian41.3 - 38.0Romania C. solanderi (101879 101884)
Bartonian - Priabonian41.3 - 33.9USA (Louisiana) C. humerosus (99762)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Australia (Western Australia) Austrolithes incompositus (205816)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Germany (Bavaria) C. sp. (10703)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Italy C. japeti, C. noae (78565) C. noae (78617)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9USA (Louisiana) C. humerosus (92298 92300 92358)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9USA (Arkansas) C. humerosus (91085)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Peru (Piura) C. cynosuris (55431)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Romania C. solanderi (101967 102032 102035)
Late/Upper Eocene37.2 - 33.9Colombia (Sucre) Rhopalithes bolivarensis (42827)
Late/Upper Eocene37.2 - 33.9Myanmar C. cossmanni (76602)
Late/Upper Eocene37.2 - 33.9United Kingdom (England) C. elongatus, C. longaevus, C. scalaris (42640)
Late/Upper Eocene37.2 - 33.9Peru (Piura) C. pozoensis, C. woodringi, C. lagunitensis (88392)
Early/Lower Oligocene33.9 - 28.4Australia (Victoria) Austrolithes incompositus (71236)
Rupelian33.9 - 28.1USA (Mississippi) C. longiformis (5500) C. vicksburgensis (5779 5943) C. vicksburgensis, C. longiformis (5501 5612)
Aquitanian23.03 - 20.44Myanmar C. cossmanni (76585)
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Peru C. atahuallpai (93749)
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Australia (Tasmania) Fusus tateanus (72221)
Middle Miocene15.97 - 11.608Australia (Victoria) Fusus bulbodes (72210)
Serravallian13.82 - 11.62Indonesia (West Java) C. fennemai (179626)
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333Indonesia (Kalimantan) C. fennemai (42224)
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333Indonesia Fusus tjidamarensis (70098)
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333Indonesia (Borneo) C. fennemai (42339)