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Astarte menthifontis
Taxonomy
Astarte menthifontis was named by Dockery (1982) [DISTRIBUTION: Early Oligocene; Gulf Coastal Plain.]. Its type specimen is USNM 340454, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
A. aitkeni, A. alta, A. antipodum, A. ayersi, A. boum, A. camertonensis, A. cantabrigiensis, A. contjeani, A. cotteausia, A. culebrensis, A. curvirostris, A. deltoidea, A. depressa, A. depressoides, A. didimtuensis, A. elegans, A. eugonia, A. fimbriata, A. griesbachi, A. hobleyi, A. kenti, A. laurentiana, A. lonjiensis, A. madseni, A. mandawaensis, A. martini, A. mitoleensis, A. nummus, A. obsoleta, A. packardi, A. pindiroensis, A. polymorpha, A. pretriangulata, A. pulfreyi, A. pumila, A. rotunds, A. scanensis, A. seanensis, A. sieversi, A. spissa, A. subminima, A. trigonula, A. veneriformis, A. veneris, A. sima, A. paphia, A. pasiphae, A. subsenecta, A. veneriformis, A. isosceles, A. cotteausia, A. icaunensis
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1982 | Astarte menthifontis Dockery p. 662 figs. pl. 26, figs. 8-10 |
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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.
†Astarte menthifontis Dockery 1982
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Reference: Sanchez Roig 1926 | |||||
Age range: Rupelian or 33.90000 to 28.10000 Ma
Collections (25 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Rupelian | USA (Mississippi) | Astarte menthifontis (5791 5867 5941 5942 5943 5944 5947 6004 6005 6006 66307 66308 66309 66310 66311 66312 66313 66314 66315 66316 66319 66326 66330 66333 66336) |