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Article: The oldest members of Porcellioidea (Gastropoda): a new link between Baltica and Perunica

Papers in Palaeontology - Volume 5 Issue 2 - Cover
Publication: Papers in Palaeontology
Volume: 5
Part: 2
Publication Date: May 2019
Page(s): 281 297
Author(s): Jiří Frýda, Jan Ove R. Ebbestad, and Barbora Frýdová
DOI: 10.1002/spp2.1241
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FRýDA, J., EBBESTAD, J.O.R., FRýDOVá, B. 2019. The oldest members of Porcellioidea (Gastropoda): a new link between Baltica and Perunica. Papers in Palaeontology, 5, 2, 281-297. DOI: /doi/10.1002/spp2.1241

Author Information

  • Jiří Frýda - Faculty of Environmental Sciences Czech University of Life Sciences Kamýcká 129, Suchdol 16521 Praha 6 Czech Republic
  • Jiří Frýda - Czech Geological Survey Klárov 3/131 11821 Praha 1 Czech Republic
  • Jan Ove R. Ebbestad - Museum of Evolution Uppsala University Norbyvägen 16 SE–752 36 Uppsala Sweden
  • Barbora Frýdová - Faculty of Environmental Sciences Czech University of Life Sciences Kamýcká 129, Suchdol 16521 Praha 6 Czech Republic

Publication History

  • Issue published online: 03 May 2019
  • Manuscript Accepted: 25 June 2018
  • Manuscript Received: 21 May 2018

Funded By

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic. Grant Number: 17‐18120S
Synthesis grant to visit the SMNH in Stockholm. Grant Number: SE‐TAF‐6786

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Abstract

The strata of Gotland, Sweden, provide one of the richest records of Silurian gastropod faunas in the world. Recent re‐evaluation of museum collections revealed for the first time the presence of gastropods of the superfamily Porcellioidea (Archaeogastropoda) in the Silurian strata of Gotland (Baltica). Additionally, the porcellioideans from Gotland represent the oldest record of the superfamily, members of which were an element of marine gastropod communities from Silurian to Cretaceous time, a period of more than 350 million years. The morphology of the sinistrally coiled teleoconchs in the oldest porcellioidean gastropods supports an existing hypothesis that the pseudo‐bilaterally symmetrical teleoconch and the mid‐whorl position of the selenizone in the post‐Silurian porcelliids is a derived shell character. The occurrence of porcellioidean gastropods in the Silurian strata of Baltica also represents a new faunal link between Baltica and Perunica which corresponds well with published palaeobiogeographical and palaeogeographical models. Six taxa are described, including the Sheinwoodian (early Wenlock) Gotlandiela contraria (Lindström), the Gorstian (early Ludlow) Mannegaardina hedei gen. et sp. nov., the Ludfordian (late Ludlow) Gotlandiela sp. and Pernericirrus lindstroemi sp. nov., as well as two agnesiid species.

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