Naticopsis

Naticopsis phillipsii, from Knight et al. (1960).

Belongs within: Naticopsoidea.

Naticopsis is a Middle Devonian to Triassic genus of neritimorph gastropods with a moderately high-spired to low, very broad shell (Knight et al. 1960).

Naticopsis M’Coy 1842BR05
|--N. (Naticopsis)PE02 [incl. Naticodon Ryckholt 1847KC60]
| |--*N. (N.) ampliata (Phillips 1836) [=Natica ampliata]BR17
| |--N. (N.) consimilisPE02
| |--N. (N.) heshanensis Pan & Erwin 2002PE02
| |--N. (N.) khurensis Waagen 1880 [incl. N. khoovensis Grabau 1931]B79
| |--N. (N.) ninglangensis Pan & Erwin 2002PE02
| |--N. (N.) phillipsii M’Coy 1844B79
| |--N. (N.) piriformis Mansuy 1912B79
| |--N. (N.) praealta Wanner 1922B79
| |--N. (N.) shizishanensis Pan & Erwin 2002PE02
| `--N. (N.) tschernyschewi Yakowlew 1889B79
|--N. (Jedria Yochelson 1953)PE02
| |--N. (*J.) meeki Knight 1933KC60
| |--N. (J.) latispiralis Wang in Wang & Xi 1980PE02
| `--N. (J.) quangxiensis Pan & Erwin 2002PE02
`--N. (Vernelia Böhm 1895)TE01
|--‘Vernelia’ excelsa (Hauer 1851)KC60 (see below for synonymy)
|--N. (V.) pseudoangustaTE01
`--N. (V.) sublimneiformis Kittl 1894 [=Hologyra (V.) sublimneiformis]TE01

Naticopsis incertae sedis:
N. cadorica Stache 1877W63
N. depressa (Guembel 1877)B79
N. elegantulaG31
N. elongata Phillips 1836B79
N. extensa Waterhouse 1963W63
N. globosum (Ryckholt 1847) [=*Naticodon globosum]W63
N. hologyroides Mansuy 1914W63
N. indicus Waagen 1880B79
N. judithae Knight 1933B79
N. margheritae Mansuy 1912W63
N. matanensis Pan & Erwin 2002PE02
N. nana Meek & Worthen 1866W77
N. oncochiliformis Gemmellaro 1889B79
N. planapiculaX89
N. ribletella Tong & Erwin 2001TE01
N. shumardi (McChesney 1860)B79
N. subovata Worthen 1883B79
N. sumatrensisG31
N. transversa (Lindstrom 1884)TTE93
N. trautscholdiG31
N. ventrica (Norwood & Pratten 1855) [=N. ventricosus]KB04
N. virgata Knight 1933B79
N. waageni Gemmellaro 1880B79
N. wakimizuiPE02
N. wortheni Knight 1933B79
N. yinganensis Qiao 1983PE02

Nomen nudum: Naticopsis operculataB79

‘Vernelia’ excelsa (Hauer 1851)KC60 [=Natica excelsaTE01; incl. Natica fastigata Stoppani 1858KC60, Naticopsis (*Vernelia) fastigataTE01]

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[B79] Batten, R. L. 1979. Gastropods from Perak, Malaysia. Part 2. The trochids, patellids and neritids. American Museum Novitates 2685: 1–26.

[BR05] Bouchet, P., & J.-P. Rocroi. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47 (1–2): 1–397.

[BR17] Bouchet, P., J.-P. Rocroi, B. Hausdorf, A. Kaim, Y. Kano, A. Nützel, P. Parkhaev, M. Schrödl & E. E. Strong. 2017. Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia 61 (1–2): 1–526.

[G31] Grabau, A. W. 1931. The Permian of Mongolia: A report on the Permian fauna of the Jisu Honguer limestone of Mongolia and its relations to the Permian of other parts of the world. American Museum of Natural History: New York.

[KC60] Knight, J. B., L. R. Cox, A. M. Keen, R. L. Batten, E. L. Yochelson & R. Robertson. 1960. Gastropoda: systematic descriptions. In: Moore, R. C. (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology pt I. Mollusca 1: Mollusca—General Features, Scaphopoda, Amphineura, Monoplacophora, Gastropoda—General Features, Archaeogastropoda and some (mainly Paleozoic) Caenogastropoda and Opisthobranchia pp. I169–I331. Geological Society of America, and University of Kansas Press.

[KB04] Kues, B. S., R. L. Batten, D. H. Erwin & Pan H.-Z. 2004. A Late Permian Chinese gastropod species, possibly larval, in the Middle Pennsylvanian of New Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 78 (2): 420–423.

[PE02] Pan, H.-Z., & D. H. Erwin. 2002. Gastropods from the Permian of Guangxi and Yunnan Provinces, south China. Journal of Paleontology 76 (Memoir 56): 1–49.

[TE01] Tong, J., & D. H. Erwin. 2001. Triassic gastropods of the southern Qinling Mountains, China. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 92: 1–47.

[TTE93] Tracey, S., J. A. Todd & D. H. Erwin. 1993. Mollusca: Gastropoda. In: Benton, M. J. (ed.) The Fossil Record 2 pp. 131–167. Chapman & Hall: London.

[W63] Waterhouse, J. B. 1963. Permian gastropods of New Zealand. Part 4—Platyceratacea, Anomphalacea, Neritacea, and correlations. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 6 (5): 817–842.

[W77] White, C. A. 1877. Report upon the invertebrate fossils collected in portions of Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, by parties of the expeditions of 1871, 1872, 1873, and 1874. U.S. Geographical Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian 4 (1): 1–219, pls 1–21.

[X89] Xi Y.-H. 1989. Late Permian–Early Triassic Gastropods from Zhongying, Qinglong of Guizhou with analysis of their feeding habits and forms. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 28 (5): 683–686.

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