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Hyotissa virleti
Taxonomy
Ostrea virleti was named by Deshayes (1832) [DISTRIBUTION: Miocene; Mediterranean, Myanmar, Pakistan, Somalia.]. It is not a trace fossil.
It was recombined as Ostrea (Alectryonia) virleti by Douglas (1927); it was recombined as Ostrea (Lopha) virleti by Cox (1936); it was recombined as Gryphaea virleti by Lumley et al. (1988); it was recombined as Hyotissa virleti by El-Hedeny (2005).
It was recombined as Ostrea (Alectryonia) virleti by Douglas (1927); it was recombined as Ostrea (Lopha) virleti by Cox (1936); it was recombined as Gryphaea virleti by Lumley et al. (1988); it was recombined as Hyotissa virleti by El-Hedeny (2005).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1832 | Ostrea virleti Deshayes |
| 1921 | Ostrea virleti Vredenburg p. 294 |
| 1927 | Ostrea (Alectryonia) virleti Douglas p. 6 |
| 1928 | Ostrea virleti Vredenburg p. 426 |
| 1936 | Ostrea (Lopha) virleti Cox p. 49 |
| 1958 | Ostrea virleti Azzaroli p. 107 |
| 1968 | Ostrea virleti Deraniyagala p. 92 |
| 1988 | Gryphaea virleti Lumley et al. |
| 2005 | Hyotissa virleti El-Hedeny p. 723 |
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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.
†Hyotissa virleti Deshayes 1832
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Steuber 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Eocene to the top of the Middle Pleistocene or 37.71000 to 0.12900 Ma
Collections (20 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Late/Upper Eocene | Myanmar | Ostrea virleti (76602) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Sri Lanka | Ostrea virleti (77650) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Iran | Ostrea virleti (79067) | |
| Burdigalian | Sri Lanka | Ostrea virleti (77477) | |
| Burdigalian | Egypt | Lopha virleti (47992) | |
| Middle Miocene | Somalia | Ostrea virleti (79077 79078 79082) | |
| Middle Miocene | Egypt | Hyotissa virleti (78613) | |
| Tortonian | Madagascar | Ostrea virleti (51586) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Iran | Ostrea virleti (79065 79066) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene | Egypt | Lopha virleti (96758) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | Egypt | Lopha virleti (96759) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene - Pleistocene | Egypt | Lopha virleti (96760) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | France (Alpes Maritimes) | Gryphaea virleti (50523) | |
| Pleistocene | Eritrea | Ostrea virleti (101415) | |
| Pleistocene | Sudan | Ostrea virleti (101414) | |
| Calabrian | South Africa | Hyotissa virleti (173265) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Spain | Gryphaea virleti (128384) |