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Assiminea

Gastropoda - Assimineidae

Taxonomy
Assiminea was named by Fleming (1828) [m. kosnik taxon no: 7821]. It is extant. It is the type genus of Assimineidae.

It was assigned to Assimineidae by Pan (1977), Wilson (1993) and Bullis et al. (2020).

Species
A. (Ovassiminea), A. striatura, A. translucens (syn. A. californica)
Species lacking formal opinion data
A. gehardiae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1828Assiminea Fleming
1977Assiminea Pan p. 129
1993Assiminia Wilson p. 150
2020Assiminea Bullis et al. p. 7

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
—Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superfamilyTruncatelloideaGray 1840
familyAssimineidaeAdams and Adams 1856
genusAssimineaFleming 1828

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. Assiminea Fleming 1828
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Subg. Assiminea (Ovassiminea) Thiele 1927
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†Assiminea striatura Bullis et al. 2020
Assiminea translucens Carpenter 1864
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Invalid names: Assiminea californica Tryon 1865 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmean
shell height18.00

Composition: aragonitec
Environment: marine, brackish, freshwater, terrestrialf
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: epifaunalc
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2017-04-17 10:09:44
Modified: 2017-04-17 10:09:44
Source: f = family, c = class
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Bajocian to the top of the Holocene or 170.30000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 168.3 Ma

Collections (22 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Bajocian170.3 - 168.3China (Yunnan) A. obesa (165476)
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Myanmar A. striatura (111688)
Chattian - Aquitanian28.1 - 20.44USA (Florida) A. aldra (60985)
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Marshall Islands A. nitida (78034)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.588Jamaica A. sp. (69090 69094)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.588Venezuela A. succinea (131210)
Late/Upper Pliocene - Pleistocene3.6 - 0.0117South Africa (Western Cape) A. sp. (110489)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781USA (California) A. californica (202495)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Mexico (Baja California) A. transluscens (96590)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Dominican Republic A. sp. (75422 75425)
Quaternary2.58 - 0.0USA (California) A. translucens (37933) A. transluscens (37947)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129USA (California) Syncera translucens (138723)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117South Africa (Western Cape) A. globulus (110492)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Mexico (Baja California) A. transluscens (96591)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (California) A. californica (202490) A. translucens (160361) Syncera translucens (96589)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Japan A. castanea, A. estuarina (97961)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0China A. gehardiae (96354)