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Taxonomy
Unio bitumen was named by Cooke (1919) [DISTRIBUTION: ?Oligocene-Miocene; Caribbean.]. Its type specimen is USNM 167063, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is USNM 3652, 5312, which is in a Ypresian/Bartonian coastal tar in Cuba.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
U. abyssinicus, U. agamigoensis, U. andersoni, U. austeni, U. austenii, U. brightoni, U. crassus, U. cumberlandi, U. cuvieri, U. danischi, U. deccanensis, U. douglasiae, U. flabelliformis, U. franconicus, U. gibbsii, U. haydeni, U. inaeguiradiatus, U. inaequiradiatus, U. karrooensis, U. kendalli, U. nuttalli, U. ogamigoensis, U. porrectus, U. ravoisieri, U. ribeiroi, U. rumanus, U. shoshonensis, U. solandri, U. stantoni, U. stewardi, U. subtruncatus, U. toulouzani, U. transpacifica, U. transpacificus, U. uryuensis, U. vizeri, U. vogti, U. wasatchensis, U. washakiensis, U. wetzleri, U. willococksi, U. abyssinicus, U. subflabellatus
Synonymy list
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Unio bitumen Cooke 1919
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Ypresian - Bartonian | Cuba | Unio bitumen (type locality: 75318) |