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Globularia

Gastropoda - Ampullinidae

Taxonomy

Globularia was named by Swainson (1840) [Sepkoski's age data: J l R Sepkoski's reference number: 909]. It is extant.

It was reranked as Ampullina (Globularia) by Vredenburg (1928) and Vredenburg (1928).

It was assigned to Ampullina by Vredenburg (1928) and Vredenburg (1928); to Ampullospiridae by Iqbal (1973); to Naticidae by Gardner (1947), Abbass (1967) and Ladd (1977); to Globulariinae by Woodring (1959), Adegoke (1977) and Kase (1984); to Neotaenioglossa by Sepkoski (2002); to Ampullospirinae by Harris and Palmer (1947) and Rosenberg et al. (2006); and to Ampullinidae by Pacaud and Le Renard (1995), Lozouet et al. (2001), Harzhauser (2004), Harzhauser (2007), Okan and Hosgor (2008) and Harzhauser et al. (2009).

Species lacking formal opinion data

G. cureti, G. eparcyensis, G. hannabali, G. hennigi, G. hugardiana, G. hulliana, G. izumiensis, G. millepora, G. neritiformis, G. patula, G. phasianelloides, G. streptostoma

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1840	Globularia Swainson
1928	Ampullina (Globularia) Vredenburg p. 299
1947	Globularia Gardner p. 555
1947	Globularia Harris and Palmer p. 255
1959	Globularia Woodring p. 158
1967	Globularia Abbass p. 70
1973	Globularia Iqbal p. 23
1977	Globularia Adegoke p. 137
1977	Globularia Ladd p. 27
1984	Globularia Kase p. 152
1995	Globularia Pacaud and Le Renard p. 163
2001	Globularia Lozouet et al. p. 21
2002	Globularia Sepkoski
2004	Globularia Harzhauser p. 111
2006	Globularia Rosenberg et al.
2007	Globularia Harzhauser p. 86
2008	Globularia Okan and Hosgor p. 788
2009	Globularia Harzhauser et al. p. 338

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

Rank	Name	Author
class	Gastropoda
subclass	Caenogastropoda	(Cox 1959)
—	Architaenioglossa	(Haller 1890)
superfamily	Ampullinoidea	Cossmann 1918
family	Ampullinidae	Cossmann 1918
genus	Globularia	Swainson 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. Globularia Swainson 1840

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†Cernina fluctuata nakamurai Otuka 1938

Subg. †Globularia (Globularia) Swainson 1840

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†Globularia (Globularia) arabii Abbass 1967

†Globularia (Globularia) farouqi Abbass 1967

†Globularia (Globularia) wasfii Abbass 1967

Subg. †Globularia (Waluia) Ladd 1934

†Globularia brevispira Cox 1930

†Globularia catanlilensis Weaver 1931

†Globularia compressa Basterot 1825

†Globularia coxi Stefanini 1939

†Globularia fischeri Dall 1892

Globularia fluctuata Sowerby 1825

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Invalid names: Ampullina (Ampullina) lineata Pannekoek 1936 [synonym]

†Globularia formosa Morris and Lycett 1851

†Globularia gibberosa Grateloup 1847

†Globularia grossa Deshayes 1864

†Globularia guineensis Adegoke 1977

†Globularia hatimi Abbass 1972

†Globularia hemisphaerica Roemer 1836

†Globularia isfjordensis Vonderbank 1970

†Globularia morgani Johnson 1899

†Globularia morrisi Cox and Arkell 1949

†Globularia pseudolatispira Eames 1952

†Globularia sanctistephani Cossmann and Peyrot 1919

†Globularia splendida Deshayes 1864

†Globularia sulcata Cox 1930

†Globularia vredenburgi Cox 1927

†Globularia zemmourensis Cox 1969

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
height	2	32.7	32.6	32.8	32.7	0.141
shell height	2	37.8	29.2	49.0	39.1	14.0

Composition:

aragonitec

Locomotion:

actively mobilesuperf

Life habit:

epifaunalsuperf

Diet:

grazersuperf

Vision:

limitedc

Created:

2009-09-15 09:36:57

Modified:

2009-09-15 11:36:57

Source: superf = superfamily, c = class

References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Toarcian to the top of the Messinian or 182.70000 to 5.33300 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 182.0 Ma

Collections (277 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Oldest occurrences
Jurassic - Late/Upper Jurassic	201.4 - 145.0	Tunisia	G. michelini, G. formosa (13862)
Pliensbachian - Toarcian	190.8 - 174.1	Chile (Atacama)	G. sp. (221824)
Late/Upper Pliensbachian - Early/Lower Toarcian	189.6 - 182.0	Argentina (Chubut)	G. catanlilensis (133006) G. sp., G. catanlilensis (149769)
Toarcian	182.7 - 174.1	Chile (Atacama)	G. sp. (221821)
Toarcian - Bajocian	182.7 - 168.3	Svalbard and Jan Mayen	G. sp. (212471)
Late/Upper Aalenian	175.6 - 171.6	Chile (Atacama)	G. sp. (221796 221797)
Early/Lower Bajocian - Late/Upper Oxfordian	171.6 - 155.7	Romania (Brasov)	G. formosa, G. morrisi (81442)
Bajocian	170.3 - 168.3	Tanzania	G. sp. (36405)
Bajocian	170.3 - 168.3	Saudi Arabia	G. formosa (45267) G. hemisphaerica (48031) G. sp. (48136) G. sp., G. hemisphaerica (45266 45268)
Bajocian	170.3 - 168.3	India	G. eparcyensis (68387)
Bajocian - Bathonian	170.3 - 166.1	USA (Utah)	G. sp. (171916 172019 172038 172042)
Bajocian - Early/Lower Bathonian	170.3 - 164.7	Saudi Arabia	G. sp. (45303)
Bathonian	168.3 - 166.1	United Kingdom (England)	G. sp. (36548 36549 36550 36551 36552 36555)
Bathonian	168.3 - 166.1	Saudi Arabia	G. formosa (45395) G. sp. (48142 48340 48396 48447)
Bathonian	168.3 - 166.1	India	G. eparcyensis (67666)
Early/Lower Bathonian	167.7 - 164.7	Italy	G. ranvillensis (160187)
Callovian	166.1 - 163.5	Kenya	G. sp. (36461 36467)
Callovian	166.1 - 163.5	Tunisia	G. coxi, G. zemmourensis (99112) G. michelini, G. formosa (13863)
Callovian	166.1 - 163.5	Saudi Arabia	G. formosa (47890 48561) G. hemisphaerica (47857 47858) G. sp. (45538 47885 47902 47912 48593 48604)
Callovian	166.1 - 163.5	Somalia	G. coxi (100368 100379 100386 100387) G. sp. (92998)