Prospondylus Zimmerman 1886

Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pseudomonotidae

Alternative spelling: Pseudomonotis (Prospondylus)

Full reference: E. H. Zimmerman. 1886. Ein neuer Monomyarier aus dem ostthüringischen Zechstein (Prospondylus liebeanus). Jahrbuch der Königlich Preussischen geologischen Landesanstalt und Bergakadamie zu Berlin for 1885:105-119

Parent taxon: Pseudomonotidae according to A. Márquez-Aliaga et al. 2005

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Reed 1944, Sepkoski 2002 and Waller and Stanley 2005

Sister taxa: Eumicrotis, Pseudomonotinae, Pseudomonotis

Subtaxa: Prospondylus acinetus Prospondylus chintongia Prospondylus crassus Prospondylus liebeanus Prospondylus palliatus Prospondylus shakhtauensis Prospondylus zimmermanni Pseudomonotis (Prospondylus) squamosa

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Type: Prospondylus liebeanus

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of France (1 collection)

• Triassic of Germany (1), Hungary (3), Indonesia (2), Italy (4), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (2), Slovakia (2)

• Permian of Germany (1), Malaysia (2), Nepal (1), the Russian Federation (6), United States (35: Texas)

Total: 61 collections including 64 occurrences

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