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Sassia
Taxonomy
Charonia (Sassia) was named by Bellardi (1872). It is extant. Its type is Triton apenninicum.
It was Triton (Sassia) by Sacco (1904); it was reranked as Sassia by Turner (1938), Adegoke (1977), Beu (1978), Squires (1987), Dockery (1993), Wilson (1993), Harzhauser (2002), Sepkoski (2002), Harzhauser (2004), Beu (2005), Harasewych and Beu (2007), Nielson and Valdovinos (2008) and Darragh (2017).
It was assigned to Triton by Sacco (1904); to Charonia by Kojumdgieva and Strachimirov (1960) and Karagiuleva (1964); to Ranellinae by Beu (1978); to Cymatiidae by Turner (1938), Adegoke (1977), Dockery (1993) and Harzhauser (2002); to Neotaenioglossa by Sepkoski (2002); to Cymatiinae by Squires (1987), Wilson (1993), Harzhauser (2004), Beu (2005) and Harasewych and Beu (2007); and to Ranellidae by Nielson and Valdovinos (2008) and Darragh (2017).
It was Triton (Sassia) by Sacco (1904); it was reranked as Sassia by Turner (1938), Adegoke (1977), Beu (1978), Squires (1987), Dockery (1993), Wilson (1993), Harzhauser (2002), Sepkoski (2002), Harzhauser (2004), Beu (2005), Harasewych and Beu (2007), Nielson and Valdovinos (2008) and Darragh (2017).
It was assigned to Triton by Sacco (1904); to Charonia by Kojumdgieva and Strachimirov (1960) and Karagiuleva (1964); to Ranellinae by Beu (1978); to Cymatiidae by Turner (1938), Adegoke (1977), Dockery (1993) and Harzhauser (2002); to Neotaenioglossa by Sepkoski (2002); to Cymatiinae by Squires (1987), Wilson (1993), Harzhauser (2004), Beu (2005) and Harasewych and Beu (2007); and to Ranellidae by Nielson and Valdovinos (2008) and Darragh (2017).
Subtaxa
Austrosassia abbotti, Austrosassia annectans, Austrosassia crassicostatus, Austrosassia tortirostris, Austrotriton cyphus, Austrotriton gibbus, Austrotriton protensus, Austrotriton textilis, Austrotriton tumulosus, Austrotriton woodsii, Charonia (Sassia) angusta, Charonia (Sassia) danica, Proxicharonia palmeri, S. (Byramia), S. (Personella) (syn. Byramia), S. (Sassia) (syn. S. (Monocirsus)), S. africana, S. apenninica, S. armata (syn. Siphonalia matthewsi, Siphonalia nodosocincta, Tritonium bicegoi), S. carlea, S. carmenensis, S. indica, S. kampyla (syn. Lotorium nodocostatum, Cymatium remotum), S. leucostomoides, S. lewisi, S. melpangi, S. morgani, S. nigeriana, S. nucleoides, S. parvula, S. philomelae, S. radialis, S. tatei (syn. Triton armatus), S. warreni
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1872 | Charonia (Sassia) Bellardi |
1903 | Austrotriton Cossmann p. 93 |
1904 | Triton (Sassia) Sacco p. 38 |
1929 | Negyrina Iredale |
1929 | Cymatoma Iredale p. 177 |
1929 | Charoniella Powell and Bartrum p. 426 |
1931 | Austrosassia Finlay p. 7 |
1936 | Phanozesta Iredale |
1938 | Proxicharonia Powell p. 373 |
1938 | Sassia Turner p. 91 |
1960 | Charonia (Sassia) Kojumdgieva and Strachimirov p. 137 |
1964 | Charonia (Sassia) Karagiuleva p. 189 |
1976 | Sassia (Austrosassia) Beu pp. 304 - 305 |
1976 | Sassia (Austrotriton) Beu p. 305 |
1977 | Sassia Adegoke p. 210 |
1978 | Sassia Beu p. 30 |
1978 | Sassia (Proxicharonia) Beu p. 32 |
1987 | Sassia Squires p. 40 |
1993 | Sassia Dockery p. 78 |
1993 | Sassia Wilson p. 249 |
2002 | Sassia Harzhauser p. 92 |
2002 | Austrosassia Sepkoski |
2002 | Austrotriton Sepkoski |
2002 | Proxicharonia Sepkoski |
2002 | Sassia Sepkoski |
2004 | Sassia Harzhauser p. 135 |
2005 | Sassia (Austrotriton) Beu p. 33 |
2005 | Sassia Beu p. 103 |
2007 | Sassia Harasewych and Beu p. 90 |
2008 | Sassia Nielson and Valdovinos p. 209 |
2017 | Sassia Darragh p. 52 |
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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. Sassia Bellardi 1872
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†Charonia (Sassia) angusta Traub 1979
†Charonia (Sassia) danica Schnetler 2001
Subg. †Sassia (Byramia) MacNeil and Dockery 1984
Subg. †Sassia (Sassia) Bellardi 1872
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†Sassia (Sassia) marshalli Beu 1978
†Sassia (Sassia) neozelanica Marshall and Murdoch 1923
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Invalid names: Sassia (Sassia) clifdenensis Finlay 1924 [synonym]
†Sassia (Sassia) zealta Laws 1939
Invalid names: Sassia (Monocirsus) Cossmann 1889 [synonym]
†Sassia africana Adegoke 1977
†Sassia apenninica Sassi 1827
†Sassia armata Hupé 1854
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Invalid names: Siphonalia matthewsi Ihering 1914 [synonym], Siphonalia nodosocincta Ihering 1907 [synonym], Tritonium bicegoi Ihering 1899 [synonym]
†Sassia carlea Dockery 1993
†Sassia carmenensis Clark and Durham 1946
†Sassia indica Vredenburg 1925
Sassia kampyla Watson 1885
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Invalid names: Cymatium remotum Frassinetti and Covacevich 1995 [synonym], Lotorium nodocostatum Tate and May 1901 [synonym]
Sassia leucostomoides Sowerby 1846
Sassia lewisi Harasewych and Petuch 1980
Sassia melpangi Harasewych and Beu 2007
†Sassia morgani Ortmann 1900
†Sassia nigeriana Adegoke 1977
†Sassia nucleoides Garvie 1996
†Sassia parvula Michelotti 1847
Sassia philomelae Watson 1881
†Sassia radialis Tate 1888
†Sassia warreni Beu 2010
Invalid names: Austrosassia Finlay 1931 [synonym], Austrotriton Cossmann 1903 [synonym], Charoniella Powell and Bartrum 1929 [synonym], Cymatoma Iredale 1929 [synonym], Negyrina Iredale 1929 [synonym], Phanozesta Iredale 1936 [synonym], Proxicharonia Powell 1938 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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shell height | 4 | 47.3 | 37.6 | 51.7 | 50.7 | 6.74 |
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References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004 |
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Maastrichtian to the top of the Gelasian or 72.10000 to 1.80600 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 70.6 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 70.6 Ma
Collections (238 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Early/Lower Campanian - Middle Campanian | USA (Mississippi) | S. carlea (7456 32139 32141 32142) | |
Maastrichtian | USA (Tennessee) | S. sp. (205445) | |
Late/Upper Maastrichtian | Poland | Charonia tuberculosa (27819 27822 28450) | |
Danian | Denmark | S. faxense, S. sp. (176994) | |
Danian | France | S. rutoti (20816) | |
Danian | Belgium | Charonia mariae, Charonia simplicostata, Charonia planisulcata, Charonia curtula, Charonia briarti (22931) | |
Danian | Poland | S. antiqua (27625) | |
Danian | Greenland | S. sp. n. large form (177724) | |
Paleocene | Austria (Salzburg) | Charonia angusta (84335) | |
Selandian | Nigeria | S. nigeriana, S. africana (7791) | |
Selandian | Denmark | Charonia bjerringi, Charonia danica (35265) Charonia sp. (51500) S. bjerringi (35266) S. bjerringi, S. danica (35267) S. danica (35263 35264) | |
Thanetian | Australia (Victoria) | S. sp. (6266) | |
Thanetian | France | Charonia antiqua (178086) | |
Thanetian | Bulgaria (Varna) | Charonia vincenti (102400) | |
Thanetian | Poland | S. delafossei, S. inornatum, S. sp. (27018) S. rutoti (27020) | |
Thanetian | Bulgaria (Pleven) | Charonia vincenti (102403) | |
Ypresian | USA (Texas) | Distorsio nucleoides (7788 7789 83950 84325 84337) | |
Ypresian | USA (California) | Personella sp. (167604) | |
Ypresian - Lutetian | USA (Alabama) | Distorsio septemdentata (89849) | |
Waipawan | New Zealand | S. sp. (51084) | |
Lutetian | USA (Alabama) | Distorsio septemdentata (81224 81238) | |
Lutetian | USA (Mississippi) | Distorsio septemdentata (99673) | |
Lutetian | France (Eure-et-Loir) | Charonia reticulosa (178055) | |
Lutetian | France (Yvelines) | S. sp. (177970) | |
Lutetian | France | Charonia bicincta, Charonia colubrina, Charonia dumortieri, Charonia formosa, Charonia multigranifera, Charonia nodularia, Charonia planicostata, Charonia reticulosa, Charonia striatula, Charonia viperina (171526) | |
Lutetian | United Kingdom (England) | S. sp. (8125) S. sp., S. sussexiensis, S. expansa, S. arguta, S. flandrica (8124) | |
Lutetian | USA (South Carolina) | Distorsio septemdentata (52344) | |
Lutetian | USA (Texas) | Distorsio nucleoides (205520 205521 205533) Distorsio septemdentata (1450 1453 90651 205436) Distorsio septendentata (1451) S. sp. (205440) | |
Lutetian | USA (Oregon) | S. bileneata (201033 201040 201041) | |
Lutetian - Bartonian | USA (Alabama) | Distorsio septemdentata (205420 205490) | |
Lutetian - Bartonian | USA (Louisiana) | Distorsio septemdentata (90470) | |
Lutetian - Bartonian | France (Loire-Atlantique) | Eutritonium namnetense (122893) | |
Lutetian - Bartonian | USA (Texas) | Distorsio septemdentata (2412) | |
Middle Eocene | Mexico (Nuevo Leon) | Personella septemdentata (42990 42991) | |
Bortonian | New Zealand | Austrosassia marwicki (64733) | |
Bartonian | USA (Mississippi) | Distorsio septemdentata (2436 2438 90706 90707 90709 91050 99735 100142 205508) S. sp. (205535) | |
Bartonian | Spain | S. sp. (141924) | |
Bartonian | France (Île-de-France) | Charonia cnneata, Charonia scabriuscula (179130) | |
Bartonian | USA (Texas) | Distorsio septemdentata (2452 7438 7439 90884 90885 91119 92237 205264 205265 205266 205267 205271 205410 205414 205422 205424 205425 205429 205430 205433 205461 205477 205480 205481 205484 205485 205515 205531) | |
Bartonian | USA (Alabama) | Distorsio septemdentata (2417 2441) | |
Bartonian | Colombia (Bolivar) | S. carmenensis (3312) | |
Bartonian | United Kingdom (England) | S. arguta (42639 42641) S. flandrica (42644) | |
Bartonian | USA (Louisiana) | Distorsio septemdentata (92273 92381 92388 98787) | |
Bartonian | Peru (Piura) | S. sp. (52526) | |
Kaiatan | New Zealand (South Island) | Austrotriton sp. (205813) | |
Kaiatan | New Zealand | Austrosassia sp. (67591) Austrotriton n. sp. (67839) | |
Priabonian | Australia (Western Australia) | S. tortirostris (205816) | |
Priabonian | Bulgaria (Burgas) | Charonia multigrana, Charonia flandrica (85445) | |
Priabonian | Germany | Charonia flandriea, Charonia multigrana (179751) | |
Late/Upper Eocene | New Zealand (Canterbury) | S. marwicki (45041) | |
Late/Upper Eocene - Early/Lower Oligocene | Argentina (Santa Cruz) | Austrosassia matthewi (42491 52859) | |
Early/Lower Oligocene | New Zealand | Austrosassia cyphoides (67928) | |
Early/Lower Oligocene | Australia (Victoria) | S. oligostira (71236) | |
Rupelian | Germany | S. foveolata, S. flandrica (95898) | |
Rupelian | Denmark | S. flandrica (111476) | |
Rupelian | USA (Mississippi) | S. abbreviata (177590) S. conradiana (5500 5501 5612 5779 5787 5788 5820 5943 5953 7113) S. sp. (74079) S. spp. (66307 66308 66309 66310 66311 66312 66313 66314 66315 66316 66329 66330) | |
Rupelian | France (Landes) | S. subspinosum (176463) | |
Rupelian | Pakistan | Tritonium indicum (77159) | |
Oligocene | New Zealand | Austrosassia sp. (45025) | |
Late/Upper Oligocene | New Zealand | Austrosassia maoria (67854 67864) | |
Late/Upper Oligocene - Early/Lower Miocene | Australia (Victoria) | S. abbotti, Personella interposita (71238) | |
Late/Upper Oligocene - Early/Lower Miocene | Argentina (Santa Cruz) | Austrosassia mathewi, Siphonalia nodosocincta (48068) | |
Chattian | Denmark | S. flandrica (111472 111474 111475) | |
Early/Lower Miocene | Australia (Tasmania) | Triton abbotti, Triton tortirostris, Triton crassicostatus (72221) | |
Early/Lower Miocene | Germany (North Rhein-Westfalia) | Charonia tarbelliana (62883) | |
Early/Lower Miocene | Australia (Victoria) | Austrotriton sp. (71241) S. abbotti (71240) | |
Early/Lower Miocene | Grenada | S. apenninica (111216) | |
Early/Lower Miocene | Argentina | Austrosassia mathewi (71429) S. bicegoi (185967) S. bicegoi, S. morgani (71542) Siphonalia nodosocincta (71403) | |
Early/Lower Miocene - Middle Miocene | Germany (North Rhein-Westfalia) | Charonia tarbelliana (62884) | |
Miocene | Germany (North Rhein-Westfalia) | Charonia tarbelliana (62899 62953) | |
Otaian | New Zealand (Auckland) | Charonia clifdenensis, Austrosassia zealta (84915) | |
Otaian | New Zealand | Austrosassia sp. (67887) | |
Burdigalian | Italy | S. appeninica, S. borsoni, S. granosa (178110 178111) S. appeninica, S. borsoni, S. granosa, S. laevigata, S. parvula (178108) | |
Burdigalian | France | Charonia benoisti, Charonia tritonea (70191) Charonia tarbelliana (74868) | |
Burdigalian | Germany | S. tarbelliana, S. sp. (111599) | |
Burdigalian | Chile | Tritonium bicegoi (78521) | |
Altonian | New Zealand | Austrosassia maoria (67896 67898 67900) Austrosassia maoria, Proxicharonia neozelanica (67897) | |
Langhian | Germany | Charonia tarbelliana (178467 178468) | |
Langhian | Italy | S. appeninica, S. borsoni, S. granosa (178112) S. borsoni (178114) | |
Langhian - Serravallian | Netherlands | Charonia tarbelliana (186883) | |
Middle Miocene | Germany (North Rhein-Westfalia) | Charonia tarbelliana (61895 61896 61898 61900 61902 61903 61904 61905 62885 62886 62888) | |
Middle Miocene | Australia (Victoria) | Austrotriton woodsi (71351) Austrotriton woodsi, Austrotriton textilis (71242) Triton gibbus, Triton cyphus, Triton woodsii, Triton textilis, Triton annectans, Triton tumulosus, Triton tortirostris, Triton protensus (72210) | |
Middle Miocene | New Zealand (Hawke's Bay) | Austrosassia sp. (45175) | |
Badenian | Romania | Charonia tarbelliana, Charonia apenninica (86875) | |
Badenian | Poland (Holy Cross Mountains) | Charonia tarbelliana, Charonia apenninica (38823) | |
Waiauan | New Zealand | S. sp. (63089 63090) | |
Tortonian | Greece | Charonia tarbelliana, Charonia apenninica (72310) | |
Late/Upper Miocene | New Zealand (Wairarapa) | Austrosassia pahaoaensis (35690) | |
Late/Upper Miocene | Australia (South Australia) | Charonia radialis (63432) | |
Early/Lower Pliocene | Dominican Republic | S. warreni (84977) | |
Early/Lower Pliocene | Chile | Cymatium remotum (78556) | |
Zanclean | Spain | S. tuberculifera (80564) | |
Zanclean | Dominican Republic | S. warreni (80136) | |
Zanclean | Greece | Charonia apenninica (72318) | |
Late/Upper Pliocene | Chile | S. leucostomoides (79201 79202 79204 79205 79206 79207 79208 79209 79210 79211 79212) S. monilifera, S. leucostomoides (79213) | |
Piacenzian | Spain | S. apenninica (80563) S. tuberculifera, S. apenninica (80561 80562) | |
Piacenzian | Italy (Emilia-Romagna) | S. apenninica (178117) | |
Piacenzian | Greece | Charonia apenninica (72414) | |
Gelasian | Italy | Charonia apenninica (178457) | |
Early/Lower Pleistocene | Chile | S. leucostomoides (89241) |