Cuphosolenus

Cuphosolenus
Temporal range: Jurassic–Cretaceous
Cuphosolenus tetracer (D'Orbigny) from France.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Stromboidea
Family: Aporrhaidae
Genus: Cuphosolenus
Piette, 1876
Species

see text

Cuphosolenus is a genus of extinct small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Aporrhaidae and the superfamily Stromboidea, known from the Jurassic[1] and lower Cretaceous[2] periods. Cuphosolenus was named by Edouard Piette in 1876.[3]

Etymology

Cuphosolenus is from the Greek Κυφός σωλήν, or "bent canal," referring to the curved anterior siphonal canal.[4]

Spelling

In 1887, Paul Fischer “emended” the spelling of the name to Cyphosolenus.[5] In 1891, Piette accepted Fischer’s use of Cyphosolenus in the text of Paléontologie Française ou Description des Fossiles de la France, etc., Vol. III (text), p. 376 ff.[6] This change in spelling has been described as an unjustified emendation under the rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[7] and scientists today generally call the genus Cuphosolenus, following the original spelling.[8]

Description

The genus includes Aporrhaidae shells with three long, thin finger-like extensions from the aperture and an extended, curved siphonal canal. The original description described the shell as having (translation from the French), "a semi-palmate lip, three digits, the posterior one of which is weakly attached to the spire, inner lip of columella thick, and siphonal canal bent or curved at the end".[3] The type species for the genus is Cuphosolenus tetracer (D'Orbigny).[9]

Distribution

Cuphosolenus has been reported from the Jurassic of France,[10] the Sinai,[11] and questionably from Saudi Arabia,[12] as well as the lower Cretaceous of Texas[13] and Mexico.[14] In his 1891 work, Piette included descriptions of 16 species of Cuphosolenus from the Jurassic of France.[10]

Species

The following species have been described as belonging (or possibly belonging = "?") to Cuphosolenus:

Jurassic species

Cretaceous species

References

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Edouard Piette, Paléontologie Française ou Description des Fossiles de la France ... Terrain Jurassique, Vol. III (text), p. 376 ff.
  2. ↑ Sohl p. B19.
  3. 1 2 Piette, Note sur les Coquilles Ailées des Mers Jurassiques, Laon 1876, p. 6.
  4. ↑ Piette 1891, pp. 376.
  5. ↑ Fischer, Manuel de Conchyilologie, etc., Paris 1887, p. 674.
  6. ↑ The plates accompanying that work, however, continued to use “Cuphosolenus.”
  7. 1 2 Cuphosolenus tarrantensis page on Cretaceousfossils.com
  8. ↑ See, e.g, Kaustuv Roy, Effects of Mesozoic Marine Revolution on the Taxonomic, Morphologic and Biogeographic Evolution of a Group: Aporrhaid Gastropods During the Mesozoic, Paleobiology, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Summer 1994), Fig. 1.
  9. ↑ Kaustuv Roy, Effects of Mesozoic Marine Revolution on the Taxonomic, Morphologic and Biogeographic Evolution of a Group: Aporrhaid Gastropods During the Mesozoic, Paleobiology, Vol. 20,(Summer 1994), p. 295
  10. 1 2 Piette 1891 p. 376 ff.
  11. ↑ F. Hirsch, Jurassic Bivalves and Gastropods from the Northern Sinai and Southern Israel, Israel Journal of Earth Science, Jerusalem, 1980, p. 142
  12. ↑ Jean-Claude Fischer, Jurassic Gastropod Faunas of Central Saudi Arabia, GeoArabia, Vol. 6, no. 1 (2001), p. 25
  13. ↑ Stanton, pp.107-108, describing Aporrhais tarrantensis, placed by Sohl in Cuphosolenus.
  14. 1 2 L. B. Kellum & K. E. Appelt, Two Gastropods from the lower Cretaceous (Albian) of Coahuila, Mexico, Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology: The University of Michigan XIX(2): 14-22 (1964).
  15. ↑ Piette 1891 p. 404 & p. 416 n.
  16. ↑ Piette 1891 pp. 426 & 416 n.
  17. ↑ Piette 1891 p. 381
  18. ↑ Piette 1891 p. 412
  19. ↑ Piette 1891 p. 390
  20. ↑ Piette 1891 p. 393 & 416 n.
  21. ↑ Piette 1891 p. 419
  22. ↑ Piette 1891 p.417
  23. ↑ Piette 1891 p. 397
  24. ↑ Piette 1891 p. 411
  25. ↑ Piette 1891 p. 416 & n.
  26. ↑ Piette 1891 p. 395
  27. ↑ Piette 1891 p. 379
  28. ↑ Piette 1891 p. 413
  29. ↑ Piette 1891 p. 383
  30. ↑ Piette 1891 pp. 393 & 416 n.
  31. ↑ Sohl p. B19
  32. ↑ Now in Cuphosolenus. See Ulrich Wieneke's and Han Stoutjesdijk's Wiki on Stromboidea.

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