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Tonnidae (tun shell)

Gastropoda - Tonnidae

Taxonomy

Tonnidae was named by Suter (1913) [m. kosnik taxon no: 5450]. It is extant.

It was assigned to Tonnoidea by Ponder and Warén (1988), Beesley (1998), Todd (2001), Bouchet et al. (2005), Beu (2005), Landau and Marques da Silva (2010), Beu (2010), Bouchet et al. (2017).

Subtaxa

Eudolium (syn. Doliopsis, Tuberculodolium, Galeodolium), Malea (syn. Quimalea), Tonna (syn. Cadium, Macgillivrayi, Simplicidolium, Foratidolium, Dolium, Cadus, Parvitonna, Perdix), Tonninae

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1913	Tonnidae Suter
1988	Tonnidae Ponder and Warén p. 302
1998	Tonnidae Beesley p. 802
2001	Tonnidae Todd
2005	Tonnidae Beu p. 106
2005	Tonnidae Bouchet et al. p. 253
2010	Tonnidae Beu
2010	Tonnidae Landau and Marques da Silva p. 49
2017	Tonnidae Bouchet et al. p. 348

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Gastropoda

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Caenogastropoda	(Cox 1959)
—	Sorbeoconcha	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—	Hypsogastropoda	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorder	Latrogastropoda	Riedel 2000
superfamily	Tonnoidea	(Suter 1913)
family	Tonnidae	Suter 1913
family	Tonnidae	Suter 1913

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.

Fm. Tonnidae Suter 1913 [tun shell]

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G. Eudolium Dall 1889

†Dolium (Eudolium) arabicum Vredenburg 1925

†Dolium (Eudolium) bituminatum Martin 1933

†Dolium (Eudolium) ormarense Vredenburg 1925

†Dolium (Eudolium) tessellatum Bruguière 1789

Subg. Eudolium (Eudolium) Dall 1889

†Eudolium aoteanum Beu 1970

†Eudolium subfasciatum Sacco 1890

Invalid names: Doliopsis Monterosato 1872 [synonym], Galeodolium Sacco 1891 [synonym], Tuberculodolium Sacco 1891 [synonym]

G. Malea Valenciennes 1833

†Malea beui Landau and Marques da Silva 2010

†Malea camura Guppy 1866

Malea densecostata Rustch 1934

†Malea elliptica Pilsbry and Johnston 1917

†Malea goliath Pilsbry and Johnson 1917

†Malea mareana Weisbord 1962

Malea pomum Linnaeus 1758

†Malea quilonensis Dey 1961

Malea ringens Swainson 1822

Invalid names: Dolium (Malea) dentatum Barnes 1824 [synonym]

†Malea springi Petuch 1989

Invalid names: Quimalea Iredale 1929 [synonym]

G. Tonna Brünnich 1772

Tonna galea Linnaeus 1758

Invalid names: Eudolium fasciatum Borson 1821 [synonym], Malea petiti Petuch 1989 [synonym]

Tonna pennata Mörch 1853

Invalid names: Tonna (Cadus) maculosa Lightfoot 1786 [replaced]

Invalid names: Cadium Link 1807 [synonym], Cadus Röding 1798 [synonym], Dolium Lamarck 1801 [synonym], Foratidolium Rovereto 1899 [synonym], Macgillivrayi Forbes 1852 [synonym], Parvitonna Iredale 1931 [synonym], Perdix Montfort 1810 [synonym], Simplicidolium Sacco 1891 [synonym]

Invalid names: Tonninae Suter 1913 [empty]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

aragonitec

Locomotion:

actively mobilef

Life habit:

epifaunalf

Diet:

carnivoref

Vision:

limitedc

Comments:

LIFE HISTORY: Predatory carnivore according to Todd (2001).f

Created:

2009-09-10 08:00:00

Modified:

2009-09-10 10:00:00

Source: f = family, c = class

References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Thanetian to the top of the Holocene or 59.24000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 48.07 Ma

Collections (303 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Oldest occurrences
Thanetian - Ypresian	59.24 - 48.07	Pakistan (Baluchistan)	Tonna sp. (101943)
Early/Lower Oligocene - Middle Miocene	33.9 - 11.63	Haiti	Malea camura (173459)
Early/Lower Miocene	23.04 - 15.98	Venezuela (Falcon)	Eudolium subfasciatum (41832)
Early/Lower Miocene	23.04 - 15.98	Dominican Republic	Malea elliptica, Malea goliath (92450)
Early/Lower Miocene	23.04 - 15.98	Panama	Malea sp. (42600)
Early/Lower Miocene	23.04 - 15.98	India	Malea quilonensis (72033)
Early/Lower Miocene	23.04 - 15.98	Peru (Tumbes)	Dolium camura (59002) Dolium sp. (59000)
Early/Lower Miocene	23.04 - 15.98	Fiji (Vitu Levu)	Eudolium sp. (179499)
Early/Lower Miocene - Late/Upper Miocene	23.04 - 5.333	Costa Rica	Malea elliptica (92098)
Miocene	23.04 - 5.333	Indonesia	Dolium costatum, Dolium crenulatum (81717)
Burdigalian	20.45 - 15.98	Dominican Republic	Malea elliptica (94143 131526)
Burdigalian	20.45 - 15.98	Venezuela (Falcón)	Malea sp., Eudolium subfasciatum (96434)
Burdigalian	20.45 - 15.98	USA (Florida)	Eudolium subfasciatum (35018 89574 89575 92379 92501 92503 92513 92548)
Burdigalian	20.45 - 15.98	Venezuela (Falcon)	Malea camura (60707)
Burdigalian	20.45 - 15.98	Argentina (Río Negro)	Eudolium lissiei (179578)
Burdigalian	20.45 - 15.98	Italy	Eudolium subfasciatum (178108 178110)
Langhian	15.98 - 13.82	Japan	Eudolium sp. (44960)
Langhian	15.98 - 13.82	Italy	Eudolium subfasciatum (178112)
Langhian	15.98 - 13.82	Dominican Republic	Malea camura, Malea elliptica (74958)
Langhian	15.98 - 13.82	Colombia (La Guajira)	Malea sp. (157830 162000)