Personidae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	61691	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=61691

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Personidae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Gastropoda	Cuvier 1797
superorder	Hypsogastropoda
infraorder	Littorinimorpha	Golikov and Starobogtov 1975
superfamily	Tonnoidea	(Suter 1913)
family	Personidae	Gray 1854

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Personidae	family	belongs to Tonnoidea	implied	Beesley, 1998
Personidae	family	belongs to Tonnoidea	stated with evidence	Todd, 2001
Personidae	family	belongs to Tonnoidea	stated without evidence	Harzhauser, 2007

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

18 (69%)

First Recorded Appearance

55.8 - 53.0 Ma
Eocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Personidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Personidae)

Ecospace Comments

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

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

P. L. Beesley. 1998. Mollusca: the southern synthesis. Fauna of Australia 5

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Distorsio genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	344	48.6 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Distorsionella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Eocymatium ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	2	47.8 Ma Eocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Kotakaia ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Personopsis genus	listed (PBDB)	4	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1854	Personidae Gray
1998	Personidae Beesley p. 798
2001	Personidae Todd
2005	Personidae Beu p. 54
2005	Personidae Bouchet et al. p. 253
2007	Personidae Harzhauser p. 105
2010	Personidae Beu

References

Beesley P. L. (1998) Mollusca: the southern synthesis, Fauna of Australia 5

Todd J. A. (2001) Systematic list of gastropods in the Panama Paleontology Project collections

Beu A. G. (2005) Neogene fossil tonnoidean gastropods of Indonesia, Scripta Geologica 130, 1-186

Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P, et al (2005) A nomenclator and classification of gastropod family-group names, Malacologia 47 1-2, 1-368

Harzhauser M. (2007) Oligocene and Aquitanian gastropod faunas from the Sultanate of Oman and their biogeographic implications for the western Indo-Pacific., Palaeontographica Abteilung A 280, 75-121

Beu A. G. (2010) Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus, Bulletins of American Paleontology 377-378, 1-550

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